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Synonyms
fruit, get, issue, posterity, progeny, seed, spawn
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Though Spotigy was sacrificed for research, Buri lived on to sire 17 offspring—one of whom graced the cover of Wired, as MIT Technology Review notes. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "Part cow, part… bacterium? Biotech company makes heifer of gene-editing blunder," 1 Sep. 2019 The analysis found that after a tropical cyclone, colonies with the most aggressive spiders produced more eggs and had more offspring that survived. — Fox News, "Spiders are getting angrier because of evolutionary trick to survive ‘climate chaos’," 21 Aug. 2019 Victoria and five other southern white rhino females are bearing children to prove their ability to have healthy offspring. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Birth at Safari Park marks milestone in saving nearly extinct rhino," 29 July 2019 Troubled offspring Epidemiological studies of people have revealed similar patterns. — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, "Parents’ emotional trauma may change their children’s biology. Studies in mice show how," 18 July 2019 Carlin-M Ivanhoe Bell, a bull born in 1974, had more than 80,000 offspring. — Maureen O’hagan, Quartz, "The way we breed cows is setting them up for extinction," 24 June 2019 In the comics, serial killer Kasady uses his symbiote, an offspring of Venom, to add to his body count and create chaos. — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, "Will Andy Serkis Take 'Venom 2' in a Darker Direction?," 8 Aug. 2019 Slowly, as Futhu’s notebooks filled, then multiplied, these small proofs wove a larger web of authenticity — a document of roots in this earth, of offspring, ownership and belonging. — New York Times, "The Schoolteacher and the Genocide," 8 Aug. 2019 Add high operating margins—of around 30% in America for a $20,000 round of IVF—plus the recession-proof nature of the desire for offspring, and investors are understandably excited. — The Economist, "The fertility business is booming," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'offspring.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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