scion

Example Sentences

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Long before David Ellison and his family acquired Paramount and CBS last summer, the 43-year-old tech scion and aircraft pilot already had his sights set on Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Rahman, the scion of one of Bangladesh's most powerful political dynasties, is expected to make a victory speech later on Saturday.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

JKF Jr. was the scion of American political royalty, and Bessette was the commoner who won his heart by side-eyeing his fame.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Anutin Charnvirakul is the scion of a construction dynasty and a hobbyist jet pilot, but championed Thailand's decriminalisation of cannabis and styles himself as a man of the people.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

And if he, good Christian, scion of a striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could be forever bound, who then could not?

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates