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descendant

noun as in person in line of ancestry

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All LUCA descendants make their molecular machinery from the same 20 molecules, even though most modern proteins could conceivably work with about half of that repertoire.

ExxonMobil, a descendant of the mighty Standard Oil Company, was removed from the Dow Jones industrial average basket of companies in August, a once unthinkable blow to its prestige.

The state is loaded with descendants of gunpowder grandee Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, who founded the chemical giant.

If there’s one thing we know that the world is creating more and more of, it’s data and computing power, which means GPT-3’s descendants are only going to get more clever.

Purdue Pharma agrees to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in settlement over opioid crisisDavid Sackler and Kathe Sackler are descendants of two of the three Sackler brothers who bought the company, then called Purdue Frederick, in 1952.

The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.

Her grandfather had been a physician and healer who—according to family lore—married a descendant of the Osage or Pawnee tribes.

Dr No -- the lineal descendant of Fu Manchu—is the epitome of evil.

In the original Marvel comic books, the Mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less.

Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing.

But not so: the postilion was an actual baron, the bearer of an ancient name, the descendant of gallant gentlemen.

She has outlived all her children: her oldest descendant living being a granddaughter, over sixty years old.

He was a descendant of the famous Abbe de Camps, so well known among bookmen and savants.

She was the descendant of a long line of courtesans, a feminine branch that had never made legal marriages.

The old man now dying is the last descendant left on this earth of the old Greek traders.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to descendant, such as: heir, offspring, scion, brood, child, and children.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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