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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

The mismatch—the strictures of the business world and a galloping imagination—launched Kafka and his innumerable artistic progeny, which continue all the way to today’s deadpan sitcoms detailing strange doings at the office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Unyoked from racial prejudices and prohibitions, Eston’s progeny prospered.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Hybrid words and wild varieties of compound words are the progeny.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

But out of those six we have three trees, the seed of which will produce seedling progenies that come very true to the type of the parent tree.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Of course he said he was regum progenies, a descendant of Ashantee kings.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray


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