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Example sentences for: descendant

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It seems to me that the political correctness movement is a natural descendant of the recurrent spasms of prudery that have assaulted our language over the centuries.
The horn is the literal and figurative descendant of the post horn , the spiral horn that was carried by a mail coach to announce its arrival in a village and whose image is still the post office symbol in much of Europe.
They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
For L1 elements that have 3'-transduced sequence, sibling, progenitor, and/or descendant L1s can be identified by comparing the transduced sequence to the sequence downstream of other L1 elements in the genome.
He discovered a Minor descendant and found a trove of correspondence that makes the story much richer (and more factual) than what was otherwise known.