as in fruit
the descendants of a person, animal, or plant the racehorse's offspring all proved to be very good racers as well the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary surrounded by three generations of offspring

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Recent Examples of offspring Meanwhile, those with these risk variants have, statistically speaking, 50% chance of passing them on to offspring. New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025 During those weeks, the cicadas mature, mate and lay eggs before dying off, and then their offspring begin the cycle anew. Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2025 The ad hoc lineup on Time included a peer of early Fleetwood Mac, Traffic guitarist Dave Mason, and the offspring of another ’60s peer, Bonnie Bramlett’s daughter Bekka Bramlett. Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025 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 See all Example Sentences for offspring 
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Noun
  • The hanging fruits had been emblazoned with the letters of the Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.
    Veronica Hilbring, Essence.com, 11 July 2017
  • My feeling is generally in the case of summer fruit pies, if things are in season and at their peak bounty, why be skimpy?
    Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit, 8 July 2017
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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
  • Down below, the musicians come off as its progeny, especially once Lipton Bot introduces us to his Grandpa Morrie, a sentient and arguably senile Roomba.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The Knicks had All-Stars in Brunson and Towns, boast one of the NBA’s best offenses and are the Eastern Conference’s No. 3 seed.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The top four seeds in the conference tournament secure a double bye to the quarterfinals.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In recent days, judges have pumped the brakes on Trump’s efforts to freeze spending, cull the federal workforce, end automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil, send transgender women to men’s prisons and dismantle the United States Agency for International Development.
    Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Elizabeth and Catherine were two of the eight children of Gotthard and his wife, Pauline.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the character genuinely loves his family, including younger siblings Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), a college student, and teenager Lochlan (Sam Nivola).
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Nay and his family moved from Kentucky to Star to help get LifeSpring off the ground after the former church at the site, one of the oldest in the state, endured internal conflict and aging membership.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The episode opens with the sort of humiliation that no one would want recorded for posterity or presented to the public.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Thanks to their tradition of reserving 10 to 15 percent of the wines from each harvest in the cellar for posterity, Conde de los Andes has a deep collection of whites from as far back as 1930.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Offspring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offspring. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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