as in offspring
the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
the rancher carefully examined the progeny of the new breed of cattle
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Useful software dependencies make their DNA easy to see and can be viewed with translucent clarity; opaque software dependencies are functional, but cloudy or muddied in terms of their ability to showcase their progeny and component parts.
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Hillyer’s movie centers on Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), a Dracula progeny who kidnaps a young woman in Transylvania.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Now Professor De Kai approaches our technological progeny not as tools, but as entities shaped by our actions.
—Robert C. Wolcott, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
In any other sport, the progeny of a former star player ascending to the highest level would be especially noteworthy.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Hillyer’s movie centers on Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), a Dracula progeny who kidnaps a young woman in Transylvania.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Now Professor De Kai approaches our technological progeny not as tools, but as entities shaped by our actions.
—Robert C. Wolcott, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progeny
offspring
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Only male offspring were analyzed in detail because females showed no autism-like behaviors, and the study used a small sample size for molecular work.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Aug. 2025
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The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring.—
Fernando Llano,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Progeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progeny. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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