as in offspring
the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
the rancher carefully examined the progeny of the new breed of cattle
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Recent Examples of progeny
Peete ‘forever changed my life’ That question haunts Peete’s progeny.
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Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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
Johnny Carson rarely had to deal with such stuff, but his progeny have grappled with it with increasing frequency.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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
Johnny Carson rarely had to deal with such stuff, but his progeny have grappled with it with increasing frequency.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Police violence robbed Eleanor’s progeny of experiencing the often special relationship between grandmothers and grandchildren.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progeny
offspring
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The range of bears has also expanded, with more sightings of female bears, or sows, with offspring in recent years.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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Their goal is to remove the females and their future offspring.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Progeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progeny. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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