descendent
Example Sentences
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Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, a descendent of the Russian Royal House of Romanov.
From Fox News
About 500,000 Haitians and tens of thousands of their descendents live in the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking nation of about 11 million people, according to the most recent immigration survey conducted in 2018.
From Reuters
Scholars David Blight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a Douglass descendent are among those offering context.
From Seattle Times
UK officials are also keeping an eye on a recent descendent of the Delta variant, called AY.4.2 or "Delta plus".
From BBC
He was a direct descendent of King Cetshwayo, who led the Zulus in the war with the British army in 1879.
From BBC
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