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progeny

noun as in offspring

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She’s a PhD student who disappears into some kind of meditation retreat invented by reality-star progeny Penelope Disick.

Set in Appalachia, this debut novel centers on a family’s cranberry bog and its meanings for different generations, as well as its near-sentient presence: Patriarchs lie buried in its peat; their progeny take ritual washes in its mud and emerge with new wives to carry on the family line.

Farmers in southwest Mexico began to select the progeny of teosinte plants that produced the most grains, and the tastiest grains, more than 9,000 years ago.

This kind of teamwork can improve the chances that the progeny will survive, especially when resources are limited, Dr. Bendesky said.

Whatever the current flavor, originalism and its ever-growing progeny hold that judges and justices should ignore every interpretive methodology judges once used to understand a legal text in favor of free-floating feelings about history: What do we think the drafters of the text intended?

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

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