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also descendent
as in bowing
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Recent Examples of descendant
Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025
Black and Afro-descendant women in Colombia are at the heart of these songs, transmitting this legacy from generation to generation.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
Owsley Brown Frazier, a fourth-generation descendant of George Garvin Brown, alone raised more than $500 million in his lifetime.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
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What made the Anson Street project unique In Charleston, the Anson Street African Burial Ground project stands out for the way Gullah Geechee traditions and descendant collaboration shaped every stage of the process — from scientific study to reinterment.
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Jensen is a descendant of 1849 Death Valley pioneer Harry Wade and a life member of the Death Valley '49ers, an organization dedicated to preserving the history and natural beauty of Death Valley.
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Rodgers’ successor, Jordan Love, will play his first game since suffering a concussion in that late December game, and in terms of his success against the Bears, he’s picked up where Rodgers had left off.—
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Chávez appointed Maduro as his successor before dying of cancer in 2013.—
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James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.—
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Across the hallway from Atlantis Kids Adventures is The Gamers Reef, a classic arcade with everything from Pac-Man to driving games, which may appeal to parents (especially those raised in the ’80s) even more than their offspring.—
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In pitting his offspring against each other in a battle for the family empire Rupert Murdoch became part of a tale as old as time… A tale well told in Gabe Sherman’s Bonfire of the Murdochs.—
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The building with its bowed windows and a Queen Ann tower had already been around for nine years before its owner placed a classified ad in a July 1897 issue of The Kansas City Times.—
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No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.—
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Advocates of our robot future have similarly mundane plans for our mechanical progeny.—
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Oscar winner and Captain Marvel herself Brie Larson will voice Rosalina, while Uncut Gems director and Happy Gilmore 2 actor Benny Safdie will voice Bowser's progeny.—
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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.—
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.—
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Adam Pritzker, a scion of the ultra-wealthy Pritzker family, also donated $3,700 in early December.—
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Schneider is a scion of Lech’s oldest hotel family, who with his husband has taken over the helm of the Hotel Arlberg.—
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If your children do homework at the kitchen table instead of their bedrooms, find a spot to keep school supplies handy.—
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Questioning the powerful influences that oversee and fund what our children learn is critical.—
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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