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descendants

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plural of descendant

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In the past year, Spanx has lost its CEO and executive chair with no clear public successors, Puck reports.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 July 2026
The Musée Lalique, located in the French commune Wingen-sur-Moder, less than 40 miles from Strasbourg, focuses on the works of French glassware designer René Lalique and his successors.

— News Desk, Artforum, 7 July 2026

Definition of successors

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After several generations, those faster-growing cells produced more offspring and became increasingly common in the population, demonstrating a basic form of natural selection.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Instead, the system simply makes a bunch of copies to increase the probability that some of them will end up in each of the offspring.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

Definition of offspring

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The Texas Medical Association is also calling for restrictions on prediction markets, including requiring users to be at least 21 years old and limiting advertisements that target children and young adults.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
Recently, there was a news story about an unlicensed childcare program in Goshen, Indiana found to be illegally operating with over 85 children and only three adults.

— Kristin Stauss, Washington Post, 10 July 2026

Definition of children

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In advance of the World Cup, NetJets signed Lionel Messi as an ambassador, including a private youth clinic for the scions of its fractional-share owners.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
The political scions — and many of their family members — were divided by the 2024 presidential election.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026

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