descendants

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Some of the Rubén’s direct descendants would win the award once again 30 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Boucher is now in the process of applying for "proof" of Citizenship - under the new law, descendants are automatically considered Canadian, so the application is not to become Canadian, but to prove one's Canadian-ness.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Mr. Wyman ends “Lost Worlds” by asking us to imagine what our descendants five or six millennia in the future might say of us based on the material debris of our daily lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

"This new species, Cimolodon desosai, was ancestral to the species that survived the extinction event. It and its descendants were relatively small and omnivorous -- two traits that were advantageous for surviving."

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

These southeastern peoples and their descendants today maintain important traditions related to corn, such as Green Corn ceremonies.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz