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Each manager who reports up to Corrine mentors a small group of future team leads, creating a cascading structure in which every leader has clearly identified successors.—
Mike Keogh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026 -
The system and its successors were seen as useful crime fighting tools.—
Jess Reia,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2026
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This is because using the same pesticide repeatedly allows some pests to survive and pass on their resistance to their offspring.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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According to the police report, the mother was cornered and groped at her car with her children in the back seat before the man ran away.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The invader is a skillful art restorer, Lori Butler (Michaela Coel), who’s been hired by Julian’s greedy children, Barnaby (James Corden) and Sallie (Jessica Gunning), to work, or pose, as their father’s new assistant.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Companies and wealthy scions donate to museums and sponsor exhibitions all the time, sure.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Fittingly, the song’s thumping beat is heard twice, real loud, in Rosebush Pruning, Karim Aїnouz’s high-gloss, pitch-dark satire about an American family described by one of its scions as mediocre, vapid egotists, who will never have to work thanks to a large inheritance.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Descendants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendants. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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