off-shoot
Example Sentences
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The Druze faith is an off-shoot of Shia Islam, with sizeable communities also in Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
The Druze - a community with its own unique practices and beliefs, whose faith began as an off-shoot of Shia Islam - have historically occupied a precarious position in Syria's political order.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025
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
As Antico points out this type of debt buying for charity was pioneered by Rolling Jubilee, an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2016
Slowly and solemnly it tolled the funeral knell, and with the last stroke of its hammer, and the last dazzling off-shoot from the dome, tower, bell, and dome all came down with a tremendous crash.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
