off-shoot
Example Sentences
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They often make for heart-warming stories, but the older generations are more cynical and make off-shoot remarks like: "Wait until they have to do any paperwork at any government agency."
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2023
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
Fortunately clothes were on the menu in November 1985, which saw the arrival of Fashion Aid, a star-studded fashion-based off-shoot of Band Aid.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2021
As Antico points out this type of debt buying for charity was pioneered by Rolling Jubilee, an off-shoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2016
The best off-shoot of French poetry at that time was the return to nature, and the struggle of truth against the fetters of old convenances, This was incomprehensible to the King.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
