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as in weeping
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Casey Clark, Parents, 30 July 2024
Her anti-intellectual agenda would take root in the nation’s youngest minds, filtering down through descendant generations.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2025
Among the few diners: an octogenarian and her descendants, a stressed-looking woman on a laptop.
—Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Oliver Origin: German, French Meaning: Olive tree, ancestors descendant
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Olivier (French)
Famous Namesakes: Actor Oliver Hudson, athlete Oliver Kahn
Peak Popularity: Oliver jumped to the #3 most popular boy name in 2019 and has remained since.
—Casey Clark, Parents, 30 July 2024
Her anti-intellectual agenda would take root in the nation’s youngest minds, filtering down through descendant generations.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
Noun
The visualizer explains that the cultural practice of bomba (music and dance) emerged in communities of enslaved Africans in Puerto Rico and their descendants.
—Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2025
Among the few diners: an octogenarian and her descendants, a stressed-looking woman on a laptop.
—Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descendant
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.—
David Mamet,
National Review,
11 Aug. 2022
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2021
Noun
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What To Know The app is a successor to the CVS Pharmacy app.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Denzel is the successor of Sidney Poitier and has worn that mantle beautifully.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Lurking within the various plotlines is a critique of the greed and selfishness baked into Baby Boomers and Gen X, who used up the planet’s resources without concern for the fallout faced by their offspring.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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While male panthers roam far and freely, females travel less, choosing to stay with their offspring, researchers say.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Dusk lures guests to the cliff top bar, designed by the Hardys’ youngest progeny Chiara, to watch the sun sink behind rice fields.—
Cynthia Rosenfeld,
TIME,
25 July 2024
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Not all significant social movements were progressive: Gordon also sketches the largely nonviolent northern branch of the nativist and racist Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, as well as its highly violent progeny, the 1930s American fascist movement.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But the media scion has an important piece of business in front of the Trump White House: the pending sale of Paramount to David Ellison’s Skydance Media that would both mark her safe exit and ensure the company’s survival.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Feb. 2025
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Texas Longhorns star quarterback and NFL scion Arch Manning has signed a reportedly massive deal with energy drink giant Red Bull.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The neutral material keeps it from looking like an eye sore and can be expanded for more hanging space as needed.—
Micaela Arnett,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2024
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This playful hanging figure will give your trick-or-treaters and guests a laugh instead of a fright.—
Wendy Vazquez,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Sep. 2023
Noun
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The San Francisco cliffside home where comedian and actor Robin Williams and his then-wife Marsha Garces Williams raised their three children has sold for $18.1 million.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Hindu family, in other words, will not be coerced into sending their children to the Lutheran school in the sense that they will be tossed into jail if their kids go to the secular school.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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