offshoot

Example Sentences

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Many consultants were calling for a breakup of the company into more agile offshoots.

From The Wall Street Journal

The sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of the country's biggest religious minorities.

From BBC

Maiduguri has been central to an insurgency by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province.

From BBC

A senior Pakistani intelligence official said on Friday the country had captured a leader from an offshoot of IS, after the arrest was reported by a United Nations sanctions monitoring group.

From Barron's

They’ve journeyed from Spain to find Esteban’s missing teenage sister who ran off to join an offshoot of this traveling festival months ago.

From Los Angeles Times