off-shoot
Example Sentences
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The Druze - a community with its own unique practices and beliefs, whose faith began as an off-shoot of Shia Islam - have historically occupied a precarious position in Syria's political order.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025
On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched his own Twitter alternative, "Threads" — an off-shoot of the Instagram platform — and so far, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. isn't a fan.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023
But we didn't make this one thinking, "Hey, we're leaving this one open specifically for an off-shoot or another film."
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2015
There is also a growing network of off-shoot regional Burning Man festivals in other countries and at other times of year, which are officially connected to the original event.
From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2015
They were both subsisting on the same foundation, but the Writing School was an off-shoot, a child and an illegitimate one.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen
