progeny
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One could see this as yet another case of nepo-baby triumph — streaming is currently littered with the progeny of famous parents — or simply a living example of the film’s theme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Unyoked from racial prejudices and prohibitions, Eston’s progeny prospered.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 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
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
And which is also busy—but instead of people in sharp suits going about their day—it’s now wizards and witches in robes mostly trying to work out how to say good-bye to their beloved progeny.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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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
"Why are the poor hungry?—Why do not your flocks and herds multiply and increase?—Why do ye maltreat the sire and kill the mother of many progenies."
From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
That is growing seedling progenies of certain parent trees.
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
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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We the People: Gen
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