descendant
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In 2021, DNA from a living descendant allowed researchers to identify John Gregory, Engineer of HMS Erebus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Now the institutional descendant of one Roosevelt reform is asking Congress for protection from the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I am a descendant of the Urartians, their grandson," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Goode’s third, “Monsters of God,” premiering Thursday on HBO, is both a direct descendant and forges a new path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Percy had been so worried about himself that he’d forgotten his friend was only a distant descendant of Poseidon.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
And the people coming back for them were not the European descendants of yore.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Caribbean nations campaigning for slavery reparations have won support from an unexpected source -- the descendants of some of Britain's most prominent families to have benefitted from the slave trade.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
It adds: "Decisions about these items and collections should be made in collaboration with descendants or communities from which they originate, if known."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The family-controlled business was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown and is now controlled by more than 100 living descendants and spouses—many of them cousins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Check on your descendants through the Demystifying Your Descendants stand!
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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