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as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Pin Yen Tan 9 Min Ago, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
In these cases, an aerial laser scan without local or descendant consent becomes a form of surveillance, enabling outsiders to extract artifacts and appropriate other resources, including knowledge about ancestral remains.
—Christopher Hernandez, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2026
Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Burden is a descendant, on her father’s side, of the railroad-and-shipping titan Cornelius Vanderbilt and, on her mother’s side, of Henry Morgan Tilford, one of the founders of Standard Oil; her maternal grandmother was the socialite Babe Paley.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
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Adjective
For decades, the bottle lay undisturbed in the family cellar until 2011, following the death of descendant Patrick de Brou de Laurière.
—Pin Yen Tan 9 Min Ago, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
In these cases, an aerial laser scan without local or descendant consent becomes a form of surveillance, enabling outsiders to extract artifacts and appropriate other resources, including knowledge about ancestral remains.
—Christopher Hernandez, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
But what actually does losing it all mean to a descendant of scions?
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Burden is a descendant, on her father’s side, of the railroad-and-shipping titan Cornelius Vanderbilt and, on her mother’s side, of Henry Morgan Tilford, one of the founders of Standard Oil; her maternal grandmother was the socialite Babe Paley.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Noun
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To do so, Weiss and her team ousted Owens’ successor, Tanya Simon, as well as the show’s executive editor, Draggan Mihailovich, along with correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
2 June 2026
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Goalkeeper is of utmost importance, with a successor to Nick Pope desired — and multiple shot-stoppers may arrive, given Newcastle will not take up the option to make Aaron Ramsdale‘s loan from Southampton permanent.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
Aylin Woodward,
WSJ,
21 Dec. 2021
Noun
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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
Adjective
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With bowed heads, friends and classmates wrapped their arms around each other.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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Instead of your standard dress shoes, Styles finished the look with a perfect pair of minty-green ballet flats with bowed laces.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.—
Nick Newman,
IndieWire,
1 June 2026
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Auerbach recently heard George Thorogood’s debut with the Destroyers for the first time, an ironic biographical note, as his own band is Thorogood’s spiritual and stylistic progeny.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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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
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Noun
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Pelley’s exit deepens the turmoil at the leading newsmagazine, where several employees have clashed with CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over the show’s editorial direction under its new corporate owner, Paramount Skydance, the company run by technology scion David Ellison.—
Kaylah Jackson,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
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Unlike gubernatorial elections in the last quarter of a century, this year’s race lacked a clear crowd-pleasing front-runner able to win over voters, such as movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jerry Brown, a sage of the California electorate and scion of a storied political family.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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For the most part, most of them wore gowns that could fit through the revolving door at the Hotel Du Cap onto the grand descending stairway, read few came close to rivaling Skye Hankey’s boa yellow dress last year which provided an elegant challenge for exits and entrances.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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