descendent
Example Sentences
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The story's narrator, Gibbons, is their joint descendent.
From Salon
A French arbitration court in February ordered Malaysia to pay the $15 billion sum - the second largest arbitration award on record - to the descendents of the last Sultan of Sulu.
From Reuters
The circular sofa is a place to gather, a spiritual descendent of that uniquely suburban, utopian symbol of togetherness: the conversation pit.
From Los Angeles Times
They also interviewed the descendent of a man who got rich from his role in pioneering Tennessee’s convict leasing system.
From Seattle Times
After Elizabeth’s death, a video clip from 2015 went viral showing Ali Gomaa, the former grand mufti of Egypt, describing the British queen as a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad.
From Seattle Times
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