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offshoot

[awf-shoot, of-] / ˈɔfˌʃut, ˈɒf- /


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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

Target, an offshoot of department-store chain Dayton Hudson, had opened its first store in Minnesota eight years earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

This one towers above the rest, its main trunk nearly two metres wide, flanked by a dozen offshoots as large as regular olive trees.

From Barron's

In 2021, the company launched PragerU Kids, an offshoot targeting school-age children and educators with lesson plans, worksheets and other learning materials tied to its videos.

From Salon

In 2010, he quit Congress and helped launch an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation think tank called Heritage Action for America, which was tasked with strong-arming congressional Republicans to act more conservatively.

From Salon