progeny
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“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
In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
They labeled individual cells at the point of injury, then followed how the cells' progeny evolved over time.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024
Biologists used to entertain themselves by speculating as to what would happen if, through some unthinkable catastrophe, the natural restraints were thrown off and all the progeny of a single individual survived.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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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