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also descendent
as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025
Black and Afro-descendant women in Colombia are at the heart of these songs, transmitting this legacy from generation to generation.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
Tribal citizens can use tribal IDs as proof of citizenship, but many federal officers are unaware of this proof of identification, said Caroline LaPorte, a staff attorney at the Indian Law Resource Center and a descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
What made the Anson Street project unique In Charleston, the Anson Street African Burial Ground project stands out for the way Gullah Geechee traditions and descendant collaboration shaped every stage of the process — from scientific study to reinterment.
—Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025
Black and Afro-descendant women in Colombia are at the heart of these songs, transmitting this legacy from generation to generation.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
The caliber is a direct descendant of the famed first El Primero movement made by Zenith in 1969, which defined what a high-frequency automatic chronograph could be.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
Tribal citizens can use tribal IDs as proof of citizenship, but many federal officers are unaware of this proof of identification, said Caroline LaPorte, a staff attorney at the Indian Law Resource Center and a descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Noun
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Trump could name Powell’s successor as soon as this week.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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His successor, Jacques Chirac, briefly abolished it in 1986, but Mitterrand expeditiously revived it in 1989 upon his return to office.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
Aylin Woodward,
WSJ,
21 Dec. 2021
Noun
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The range of bears has also expanded, with more sightings of female bears, or sows, with offspring in recent years.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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Their goal is to remove the females and their future offspring.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The building with its bowed windows and a Queen Ann tower had already been around for nine years before its owner placed a classified ad in a July 1897 issue of The Kansas City Times.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 Nov. 2025
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No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Throughout his rise to power and reign, actually, rumors constantly swirled about Hitler’s romantic partners and possible progeny.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Advocates of our robot future have similarly mundane plans for our mechanical progeny.—
James Vincent,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Noun
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Likewise, the sugars produced by the green leaves of a scion cannot be shared with the lower stem and roots of the plant if the graft fails.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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From the outside, the Chanler looks less like a proper hotel, and more like a 19th-century scion’s private estate.—
Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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According to Kendall Seymour, the father of three of the children, the family did not realize the kids were missing until days after they had already been taken overseas.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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These and other groceries would be distributed to families who’d been too afraid to send their children to school in the weeks since an influx of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement began operations in the city, in December.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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