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  • noun all of the offspring of a given progenitor.

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  • noun Plural form of descendant.

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  • noun all of the offspring of a given progenitor

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Examples

  • One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames.

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  • But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.

    Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ? Laban 2006

  • Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.

    Making Links 2009

  • A characteristic that occurs only in later descendants is called an apomorphy (meaning "separate form" or "far from form," as in far from the root ancestor; also called a "derived" state) for that group.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • What we can do for our descendants is promote, or at least avoid retarding, economic growth.

    Natural Disasters 2008

  • Darwin descendants are still there (through the Keynes), and the institute still supports the notorious Pioneer Fund directly.

    A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed 2008

  • Linguistic evidence that these diverse communities intermingled to some extent with these PNECB descendants is found in their modern language descendants 'lexis. 10

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • At least the phony, bait & switch concern for starving artists and their descendants is well grounded in history.

    Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry 2007

  • The first white man to see Lake Victoria, John Hanning Speke, claimed the two tribes in the Rwanda region were direct descendants from the Bible.

    Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006

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