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as in weeping
bending downward or forward
the descendant branches of a weeping willow
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Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2024
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
Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
The archive will also include artifacts, a chronology of Indigenous enslavement and oral histories collected from descendants like Leyva.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
According to data presented at the May 2 meeting, the program has paid more than $4.8 million to 193 recipients across the ancestor and descendant categories.
—Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2024
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
Noun
Editor’s picks Some of these characters feel like direct descendants of ones from seasons past.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
The archive will also include artifacts, a chronology of Indigenous enslavement and oral histories collected from descendants like Leyva.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 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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Succession Buffett also spent the past year or so settling outstanding litigations and issues on Berkshire’s balance sheet, paving the way for his successor Greg Abel to eventually take over.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
21 Feb. 2025
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Expectation in Denmark ramped up, with the country desperate for a successor to former Australian Open champion and world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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As a result, half the offspring of each breeding pair will inherit the supergene, and half will not.—
Donna L. Maney,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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At the time, Congress did not debate whether offspring of people in the country illegally were guaranteed citizenship.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The flag still lacks any representation of our Illiniwek and Miami heritage, which should be added by their progeny.—
Brad Weisenstein,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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The hope, of course, is that the joyous moments outweigh the headaches and that on some lizard-brain level, this early exposure will pay off someday, helping to shape the great people that our progeny will eventually become.—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Mackey, who plays the young woman, has a sharp, precociously severe profile, like a young Uma Thurman or movie-star scion Chiara Mastroianni, who inherited her dad’s sharp cheekbones and the wide, doll-like eyes of her mom (Catherine Deneuve).—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Trump of the first half of the movie might surprise viewers used to the 2025 version: an outer-borough scion, ambitious but unsure, who bristles under his despotic father, aspires to greater recognition and bets big on the revival of Midtown Manhattan during its 1970s nadir.—
Marc Tracy,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 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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Their adult children wept on the witness stand and spoke of their devastation.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Make your 100 percent tax-deductible donation today to help UNICEF reach more children in need.—
UNICEF USA,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Descendant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descendant. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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