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Purdue Pharma agrees to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in settlement over opioid crisisDavid Sackler and Kathe Sackler are descendants of two of the three Sackler brothers who bought the company, then called Purdue Frederick, in 1952.

The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.

Her grandfather had been a physician and healer who—according to family lore—married a descendant of the Osage or Pawnee tribes.

Dr No -- the lineal descendant of Fu Manchu—is the epitome of evil.

In the original Marvel comic books, the Mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less.

Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing.

But not so: the postilion was an actual baron, the bearer of an ancient name, the descendant of gallant gentlemen.

She has outlived all her children: her oldest descendant living being a granddaughter, over sixty years old.

He was a descendant of the famous Abbe de Camps, so well known among bookmen and savants.

She was the descendant of a long line of courtesans, a feminine branch that had never made legal marriages.

The old man now dying is the last descendant left on this earth of the old Greek traders.