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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendants
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This means identifying possible successors early and exposing them to critical challenges to accelerate their preparation.—
Susana Sierra,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026 -
Hansen has produced spiritual successors to To Catch a Predator, including the news magazine Crime Watch Daily and his currently running Takedown with Chris Hansen on TruBlu.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
27 May 2026
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Sonya Clark’s The Descendants of Monticello filled the windows of Declaration House with close-up video portraits of offspring of the more than 400 people Jefferson enslaved at Monticello—including those related to Jefferson himself.—
Greg Allen,
ARTnews.com,
7 June 2026
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Earl’s a rare but naturally occurring cross-breed, the offspring of a loggerhead father and a Kemp’s ridley mom.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
7 June 2026
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The couple has been married since 2016 and shares three children.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
4 June 2026
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For one, as University of British Columbia dean of the faculty of dentistry Mary MacDougall told New Scientist last year, the approach may only work in children, who still have plenty of dental epithelial cells, which play a foundational role in the development of teeth.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
4 June 2026
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But what actually does losing it all mean to a descendant of scions?—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
28 May 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
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“Descendants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendants. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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