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descend

verb as in condescend

verb as in trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down

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You may eventually see that you’ve been bamboozled, or you may continue to descend into the mass psychosis gripping the American mind.

From Salon

Stars will descend on Manchester on Sunday for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, with a cast list including Shawn Mendes, Raye and South African singer Tyla.

From BBC

“Before every election, American authorities and media descend into hysteria about ‘Russain disinformation and inference,’” the embassy wrote.

Whenever one is posted, customers within quick driving or running distance descend upon the store, as they did last Thursday afternoon after the Century City Pop Mart used red siren emojis to announce it had 83 Labubus for sale: “Hot restock announcement… sales start right now.”

There are many great and memorable exhibits in the museum, but perhaps the pièce de résistance is the massive Olympic pool-sized ball pit that hosts intermittent light shows in which additional balls and spotlights descend from the already bulbous ceiling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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