variants
also descendent
as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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
Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
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
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Adjective
The integrative approach of the study led to the exciting identification of the exact event that triggered the signals: the Dickson Fjord rockslide, megatsunami and the descendant waves that persisted.
—Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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
Noun
Orange’s writing holds particular significance for Olivarez-Giles, who recently moved to Oakland and is a descendant of the Yaqui tribe in southern Arizona and Mexico.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Noun
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The outcome will determine not only the successor to Democratic Governor Phil Murphy but may also set the tone for party strategies in the 2026 congressional midterms.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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So who exactly is the man who will be leading the Dolphins’ front office while the team looks for a permanent successor to Grier?—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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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Think about our offspring, our kids.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Stop being a people-pleaser, particularly where your offspring is concerned.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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The composer also added synths to his orchestral score, as well as bowed metal, where a violin bow is rubbed against metal instruments like a cowbell or a Vibraphone, for when Roz has a particularly intense feeling.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Peete ‘forever changed my life’ That question haunts Peete’s progeny.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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
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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
Noun
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Under the public trees, children ran exultantly between cars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Villages have been burned, civilians executed, and children targeted.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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