off-shoot

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EG.5 is another off-shoot of the Omicron variant of Covid.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2023

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched his own Twitter alternative, "Threads" — an off-shoot of the Instagram platform — and so far, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. isn't a fan.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

Charnock was a former head of Dulwich College Shanghai - an off-shoot of the London public school - and of Wilson's, a boys' grammar in south London.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2019

Michael B. Jordan is “Creed,” son of the late boxer Apollo Creed, and Sylvester Stallone is Rocky Balboa for the umpteenth time in director Ryan Coogler’s inspirational 2015 off-shoot of the “Rocky” franchise.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2016

This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles