- plural of descendant.
descendants
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The family-controlled business was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown and is now controlled by more than 100 living descendants and spouses—many of them cousins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
On top of this individuals can get an additional transferable allowance for a family home of £175k each when it is left to children or other direct descendants.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Aegon’s descendants revere the Conqueror so highly that he has numerous prominent namesakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Merikins are the descendants of formerly enslaved African Americans who fought alongside the British during the War of 1812.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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