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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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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

“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

But there’s an attitude, a worldview and a fundamental set of principles that guide the tech industry and its progeny, like a secular catechism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025

Objectively, a family, a nation, even a civilization’s measure of enduring success has to be the survival and nurturing of its progeny.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

That is, farmers initially selected seeds of certain wild plant individuals to bring into their gardens and then chose certain progeny seeds each year to grow in the next year’s garden.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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