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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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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

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

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

He bred short-tall hybrids with short-tall hybrids to produce third-generation progeny.

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

The 21 climatic test plots ranged from one to two acres each, and were planted with more than 20 progenies represented, as well as forest-tree chinkapin and some hybrids.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The passage which seems to us most decisive, is that which points to the royal extraction and name of this holy bishop: “Regia progenies, alto de sanguine Machar”.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by




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