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
Isla, Irene and Agnes Carmichael are sisters, the progeny of architect-to-the-rich Stephen, whom they all despise.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024
In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
In fact, when it was first observed in 1989 among bella moth adults, it was the only known example of a male moth or butterfly that invested any chemical resources in its progeny.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024
Such trees die out in the wild without leaving any progeny, because birds discover and eat all their seeds.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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