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
Compared to the free air and 50/50 ratio, the progeny exposed to the 30/70 ratio showed a much larger reduction in cranial width and height.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 18 July 2025
The event builds off of the company’s DC All In era as well as its progeny, Absolute Universe.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
Useful software dependencies make their DNA easy to see and can be viewed with translucent clarity; opaque software dependencies are functional, but cloudy or muddied in terms of their ability to showcase their progeny and component parts.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 18 July 2025
The event builds off of the company’s DC All In era as well as its progeny, Absolute Universe.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
Useful software dependencies make their DNA easy to see and can be viewed with translucent clarity; opaque software dependencies are functional, but cloudy or muddied in terms of their ability to showcase their progeny and component parts.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progeny
offspring
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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
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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
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“Progeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progeny. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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