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

Isla, Irene and Agnes Carmichael are sisters, the progeny of architect-to-the-rich Stephen, whom they all despise.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024

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

As the cancer cell's protective membrane ruptures upon death, it releases its contents, including virus progeny that can infect and kill neighbouring cancer cells.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2024

Such trees die out in the wild without leaving any progeny, because birds discover and eat all their seeds.

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