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
Predators may have only 2 to 4 generations per season, with far fewer offspring.
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Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
The wolf species — once common in most of the eastern and southern United States — still exists but is critically endangered, partly because wolves in the wild often mate with coyotes and produce hybrid offspring.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Among the 20-somethings at its center are the Bravo-famous offspring of breakout Housewives Kandi Burruss, Kim Zolciak, Meredith Marks, and Teresa Giudice.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
The study produced another intriguing finding: Ancestral night lizards had very small litter sizes, probably consisting of just one or two offspring.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
The wolf species — once common in most of the eastern and southern United States — still exists but is critically endangered, partly because wolves in the wild often mate with coyotes and produce hybrid offspring.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
Among the 20-somethings at its center are the Bravo-famous offspring of breakout Housewives Kandi Burruss, Kim Zolciak, Meredith Marks, and Teresa Giudice.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
The study produced another intriguing finding: Ancestral night lizards had very small litter sizes, probably consisting of just one or two offspring.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for offspring
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The hanging fruits had been emblazoned with the letters of the Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.—
Veronica Hilbring,
Essence.com,
11 July 2017
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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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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.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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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
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Hamas has failed at governance but succeeded at redirecting blame, cultivating despair and extremism, and planting the seeds of future wars.—
Margaux Chetrit,
Sun Sentinel,
23 July 2025
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She is set to play Magdalena Frech, the Polish fifth seed, in the singles on Thursday.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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That may involve preventing children from accessing the entire site or app, or only some parts or kinds of content.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 July 2025
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The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office and Elmore County paramedics responded to a call at 1:47 p.m. Saturday about an object piercing a windshield and injuring a child, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday in a news release.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
14 July 2025
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In February, officials did not respond to The Enquirer’s questions about a family who said the hospital wouldn’t put their 12-year-old daughter on its heart transplant waiting list because of her vaccination status.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
The Enquirer,
25 July 2025
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Twin Pines history The Janssen family said that Twin Pines started after World War II, and its first deliveries were made by horse and buggy.—
Emma George-Griffin,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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As a lecturer at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering on the Indiana University Indianapolis campus, Powers teaches classes on video game history and creature design and spearheads efforts to preserve the best video games for posterity.—
Holly V. Hays,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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Meanwhile, Osbourne, 76, encouraged fans to create Ozzy dupes for posterity.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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“Offspring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offspring. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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