off-shoot

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The Druze - a community with its own unique practices and beliefs, whose faith began as an off-shoot of Shia Islam - have historically occupied a precarious position in Syria's political order.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

Charnock was a former head of Dulwich College Shanghai - an off-shoot of the London public school - and of Wilson's, a boys' grammar in south London.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2019

According to the Hollywood Reporter, ABC is "knee-deep in conversation with executive producers" for an off-shoot of the series.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2018

Michael B. Jordan is “Creed,” son of the late boxer Apollo Creed, and Sylvester Stallone is Rocky Balboa for the umpteenth time in director Ryan Coogler’s inspirational 2015 off-shoot of the “Rocky” franchise.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2016

This is an off-shoot from an accurate geometrical rectification, on which is to be presumed Mr. Gillott's new machinery is founded.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene