progeny
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“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
And, as The Times noted in a 1997 review of Ozzfest, “Since Black Sabbath’s ‘70s heyday, its progeny have upped the ante considerably when it comes to rock’s shock value.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
Objectively, a family, a nation, even a civilization’s measure of enduring success has to be the survival and nurturing of its progeny.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
Farmers in southwest Mexico began to select the progeny of teosinte plants that produced the most grains, and the tastiest grains, more than 9,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
He bred short-tall hybrids with short-tall hybrids to produce third-generation progeny.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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