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  1. Descended

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of descended in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of descended in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of descended in a Sentence

  1. Charles Robert Darwin:

    Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

  2. Winston Churchill:

    From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

    Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  5. Aaron Carver:

    The White House guidelines come amid a tempestuous week in which protestors across the country descended on state capitals to express their anger over the effects the lockdown measures were having on the economy despite thousands of new cases of COVID-19 being reported every day. SOURCES BELIEVE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK ORIGINATED IN WUHAN LAB, AS PART OF CHINAS EFFORTS TO COMPETE WITH US On Wednesday, hundreds of cars, trucks and SUVs descended on Michigans state capital as part of a noisy protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmers social-distancing restrictions that critics saidy have gone too far. Similar protests unfolded in Virginia, Wyoming, Kentucky and Ohio over the last week with more planned in Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and New Hampshire. The federal government said Thursday that 5.2 million more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to about 22 million out of a work force of 159 million easily the worst stretch of U.S. job losses on record. The losses translate to about 1 in 7 workers. Those people that know theyre vulnerable, self-quarantine. And everybody else, let them go back to work.

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