noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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Six generations of his direct descendants continued to live in Myddle throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The professor said he has no idea if Ayi is a direct descendant of other Glidji monarchs.
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He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
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I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.
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In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.
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Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s.
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Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant , his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.
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But what are the mechanisms that cause the direct linear descendants of the zygote to change their character so radically?
lineal
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Their Mr. A. Waugh is a lineal descendant of Gifford, by the way of mentality.
■ VERB
leave
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To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants .
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Those who choose infertile mates leave no descendants .
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Thus leaving the descendants of the cabal in charge of the Imperium?
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This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants , so altruists inevitably become extinct.
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The success of an individual in biological terms depends on his ability to leave successful descendants .
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People have such genes because those that employed criteria of beauty left more descendants than those that did not.
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Those that did so would last longer and leave more descendants than those that did not.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
direct descendant
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Both marriages were childless; so that Elizabeth was the last direct descendant of William Shakespeare.
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Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.
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He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
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I don't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology.
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In many ways the Aphrodisians were the direct descendants of Hellenistic and, more specifically, Pergamene sculpture.
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Six generations of his direct descendants continued to live in Myddle throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The professor said he has no idea if Ayi is a direct descendant of other Glidji monarchs.
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Those who made it an issue were the direct descendants of the anti-military counter-culture of the 1960s.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Frederick and Bertha moved to Iowa in 1852, and their descendants still live in the area.
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Paul claims to be a descendant of King Charles I.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But neither fish can be regarded as the one whose descendants eventually colonised the land permanently.
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His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years.
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Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
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The ancestral language can itself be reconstructed from the hints held in its much diverged descendants.
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The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.
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Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
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This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.
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Your article made it to a Woodson descendants list on the Internet of which I am a recipient.