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

In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

This kind of teamwork can improve the chances that the progeny will survive, especially when resources are limited, Dr. Bendesky said.

From Science Daily • May 15, 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

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas