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scion

noun as in offshoot, descendant

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On Wednesday, Paramount laid off 1,000 employees in a first round of cuts after the company’s takeover by tech scion David Ellison’s Skydance Media.

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The move is a blow to Paramount, which has focused on wooing high-profile talent to the studio since its takeover by tech scion David Ellison and his Skydance Media.

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In the first season, she played a young woman who fell in love with and married the scion of a wealthy family.

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Jack Burden, the scion of an old-money family from the Louisiana coast, drops out of graduate school and becomes a newspaper reporter.

Mamdani pulled off a stunning upset in the Democratic party primary, defeating political scion Cuomo who had been the favorite for weeks, becoming the party's official nominee.

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