offshoot

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The lawsuit further accuses Anderson of using two offshoot LLCs and a real estate company to funnel himself around $5 million in additional profits.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The team believes this was an early offshoot of what is now the Azores mantle plume.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Andrew Herscowitz, the chief executive of a unit established by a charitable offshoot of the Rockefeller Foundation to help 300 million Africans gain access to electricity by 2030, was invited to the summit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Nearly all those reported missing are members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam that makes up about 10% of Syria's population and to which the ousted president belongs.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Then he hopped down from the rock and led them downhill, down a winding offshoot trail toward a crevice behind the rock.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix