scion
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It was founded in 1978 by Steven Loui, a talented engineer and scion of a powerful Hawaiian shipping family.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sapir’s family, originally from Georgia, built the Trump SoHo in New York and the real estate scion introduced the group to the Trump Organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The chain got its start in Vancouver, British Columbia, when Brian Hill, a Canadian retail scion, opened the first boutique in 1984 in a shopping center there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The former shipping scion took over the reins from the last British Governor Chris Patten in July 1997 when the UK handed Hong Kong back to China, ending more than 150 years of British control.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Although Nabokov was the scion of a Russian noble family, he detested the class-bound servility ubiquitous in the land of his birth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Growers are gathering on Sept. 30 to preorder the trees, with inoculated scions being propagated at Philip Rucks’s nursery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
The first venture capitalists were wealthy individuals like Brown and Englishman Matthew Boulton—who subsidized James Watt’s steam engine in Great Britain—and scions of wealthy dynasties like the Rockefellers in the U.S.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
The scions of two Philippine political dynasties, Duterte and Marcos had initially competed for the presidency in the lead-up to the 2022 elections.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
These weren’t the heirs and scions of industry; these were working-class Americans.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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