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descendant

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noun

variants also descendent

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Recent Examples of descendant
Adjective
Lauren Denham is a Native-Alaskan descendant and political science major who graduated from TCU in 2023. Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025 Lowell, the Guinness descendant who dreamt up the idea for the series, was inspired to pursue the project after watching (and being disappointed by) the popular historical drama, Downton Abbey. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
According to data presented at the May 2 meeting, the program has paid more than $4.8 million to 193 recipients across the ancestor and descendant categories. Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2024 Oliver Origin: German, French Meaning: Olive tree, ancestors descendant Alternative Spellings & Variations: Olivier (French) Famous Namesakes: Actor Oliver Hudson, athlete Oliver Kahn Peak Popularity: Oliver jumped to the #3 most popular boy name in 2019 and has remained since. Casey Clark, Parents, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for descendant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Adjective
  • 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
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • Although nothing is imminent, club sources say the hierarchy are keen to find a successor and have held talks with a number of candidates.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Though Xi, 72, retains a firm grip on power, the lack of successors has raised fears of an internecine struggle, The New York Times reported.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Expert help is recommended because a mom, if cornered, likely will defend her offspring.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The decorative leaves of blue hibiscus are palmate, deeply lobed and appear to be the hybrid offspring of an oak leaf and a snowflake.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Johnny Carson rarely had to deal with such stuff, but his progeny have grappled with it with increasing frequency.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not many entertainment studios can say they’re successively owned by a media company, a dialup power player, a media company again, a telecom megalith, a cable giant and a software scion.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The police were alerted by Jeremy Bamber, the twenty-four-year-old scion of a local farming dynasty, whose parents, June and Nevill, occupied the estate.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Of the other methods – including electrocution, lethal gas and hanging – lethal injection had the highest botch rate of more than 7%. ‘An embrace of brutality’ Still, states have remained averse to the firing squad, a position that experts who spoke to CNN believe stems from its overt violence.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The neutral material keeps it from looking like an eye sore and can be expanded for more hanging space as needed.
    Micaela Arnett, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Her mother, a pediatric critical care nurse, was working her shift at Hennepin County Medical Center, where several of the wounded were taken, before even knowing her children’s school was involved.
    Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The topic of nepotism came up in a new interview with Skarsgård in Vulture, when the outlet pointed out that many of his eight children — including Bill, Alexander, and Gustaf — have become actors like their father.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But with so many dangling threads, there’s already a clamor amongst the viewers and the cast/crew for another season.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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