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
Noun
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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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Deadheading helps remove dead flowers and seed pods to delay seed production.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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American 13th seed Amanda Anisimova will face five-time major champion Iga Swiatek in the final, as both players aim for their maiden Wimbledon title.—
Manasi Pathak,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Central to his story is his birth on the dying planet Krypton and his arrival as an outsider to Kansas, and the creators of the comic, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, are children of European Jewish immigrants.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
14 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 road for becoming a historian started with researching his family’s history, specifically his father’s side.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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The teen, identified as Riccardo Boni by several Italian media outlets, was vacationing in Montalto di Castro, Italy, with his family when the incident occurred on Thursday, July 10.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
12 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 22 Jul. 2025.
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