progeny
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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
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
Individual languages age away and seem to die, but they leave progeny all over the place.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
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”.
The father and grandfather and uncle and great-uncles, the great-grandfather and great-great-uncles, with all their progenies, lay before him in a maze of entanglement which it would be his business to unravel.
From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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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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