descendants

variants also descendents
plural of descendant

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Noun
  • As Red Sox legends Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz and Dennis Eckersley looked on from various vantage points in the ballpark, their successors played without success.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Star Trek is different; the resolutely sci-fi voyages of James T Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, and their successors on the final frontier are much more likely to be underpinned by science or, at least, the franchise's version of it.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And the fact that Lucian had so many offspring, Bella told me, can be explained, at least to some extent, by his youthful partners’ intentionality.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dinner and show tickets are $43-$47, $33 for children 15 and younger and for show-only.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The couple shared two young children, a son and a daughter.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pioneer Press has also reached out to the Libertyville school districts as an unverified current town name being floated by claimants.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The winning numbers from Wednesday's draw—9, 12, 22, 41, 61 and Powerball 25—produced several million-dollar winners but no jackpot claimants.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Descendants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendants. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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