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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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The Mogwai and his misbehaved progeny debuted in the 1984 holiday classic “Gremlins” and returned in the 1990 follow-up, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

But none of this—its imperfect construction, its lack of architectural progeny, its scientific failure—affects its intrinsic greatness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Monsters though Lestat and his makers and progeny may be, they were all mortal once, and that seed of humanity still exists inside of them or, in Claudia’s case, around them.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Family was a major theme of the night, with numerous stars spotlighting their talented progeny, as was the importance of soulful artistry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The series wisely taps some familiar faces from Bravo shows of yore, tossing “Housewives” progenies Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Gia Giudice and Brooks Marks into the batter before adding a few special ingredients.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025

Symbolically, though, the first of Johnson’s hallmark progenies graced a route that bendies had snaked along and where the Routemaster had met its end – the number 38, which links Hackney with Victoria.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2015

But more than just being little progenies, the Smith children combine their beyond-their-years giftedness with a truly kid-like apparent pleasure in what they do.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2010

One is his native district, which is called Solum Cariense: the other is the royal ancestry to which his family had a just and ancient claim: "Regia progenies alto de sanguine Machar".

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various

Evidently the heretics were not to be gotten at through the male sex of their hopeful progenies.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath


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