progeny
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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
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
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
I saw a family of weaver birds work together for months on a nest that became such a monstrous lump of sticks and progeny and nonsense that finally it brought their whole tree thundering down.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing progeny
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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