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
In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
Rich men can afford to support lots of progeny they never have to see.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.*
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
"Why are the poor hungry?—Why do not your flocks and herds multiply and increase?—Why do ye maltreat the sire and kill the mother of many progenies."
From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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