Definition of "offshoots" []

• Plural form of offshoot. (noun)

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• "The Tea Party itself is a third party movement, spawning fractious offshoots from a tattered Republican Party collapsing on itself."
• "(Certain offshoots of it, certainly, but not mainstream Christianity.)"
• "Though we cannot absolutely distinguish the linguistic identities of the very earliest groups late in the first millennium BCE, their settlements and material culture provide strong indicators that early Bantu-speaking offshoots from the Southern Nyanza Basin who produced a variety of EIA ceramics, farmed, and produced iron moved into the area just before the end of the last millennia BCE."