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as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
The joy that African and Afro-descendant visitors described upon obtaining their All African People’s Community passport was overwhelming, and the sense of belonging to this global community was liberating.
—Dread Scott, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
Gary Ono, a descendant of Benkyodo’s owner, shared an iron cookie mold with Nakamachi, noting that his grandfather had built the first machine to make fortune cookies in the US.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Lansing shared the night with new friends like Spanish royal HRH Princess Eulalia de Orléans-Borbon and Winston Churchill's descendant Lady Araminta Spencer-Churchill.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
The joy that African and Afro-descendant visitors described upon obtaining their All African People’s Community passport was overwhelming, and the sense of belonging to this global community was liberating.
—Dread Scott, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
The male wolf, born in 2024, is a third-generation descendant of wolves brought from Russia in 2008 as part of a conservation effort to restore wolves similar to those that once lived in Korea before going extinct in the wild in the 1960s.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
Gary Ono, a descendant of Benkyodo’s owner, shared an iron cookie mold with Nakamachi, noting that his grandfather had built the first machine to make fortune cookies in the US.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Noun
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Apple is turning a page as CEO Tim Cook hands over the reins to successor John Ternus, marking only the second leadership transition since Steve Jobs.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Francis then moved Prevost to head one of the most important Vatican jobs — prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops — that gave Prevost crucial experience in the Vatican bureaucracy and contacts with the cardinals who would eventually choose Francis’ successor.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 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 39th Congress confirmed Trumbull’s view of citizenship, even explicitly rejecting the exclusion of the offspring of immigrants, similar to the issue today.—
Ediberto Roman,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
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Protect her newborn, albeit alien-like, offspring by any means necessary, of course.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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With bowed heads, friends and classmates wrapped their arms around each other.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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Instead of your standard dress shoes, Styles finished the look with a perfect pair of minty-green ballet flats with bowed laces.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In the final battle against Papa Bowser and his progeny, Mario and Peach leap over the giant King Koopa on the lava bridge and send him tumbling into the molten river below.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Apr. 2026
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To match the progeny of the pros, ambitious kids like Ken had to work extra hard.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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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Tech scion David Ellison and his team believes the blockbuster deal makes sense — particularly because of turmoil in the entertainment business, the company said.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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There was no longer any mechanism to manufacture trust and stimulate voluntary citizen idea generation and problem solving, no space any more for spontaneous working informality for business leaders, educators, politicians, public officials, wealthy scions of old families, clergy, etc.—
Stephen B. Young,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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