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also descendent
as in weeping
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
Darwin himself depicted evolution as a branching process in which ancestral species divide into two or more descendant species.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
The commission reconsidered a request submitted by descendants in 2015 and rejected in 2022, delivering a formal apology in Brasília spoken in Japanese.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
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Her anti-intellectual agenda would take root in the nation’s youngest minds, filtering down through descendant generations.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Darwin himself depicted evolution as a branching process in which ancestral species divide into two or more descendant species.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
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Founded by a Cuban immigrant named Casimiro Hernandez Sr., the restaurant is run by his descendants.
—NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
The commission reconsidered a request submitted by descendants in 2015 and rejected in 2022, delivering a formal apology in Brasília spoken in Japanese.
—Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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