begetter

Example Sentences

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I don’t mean simply that the character Mr. Hawke plays — an initially enigmatic, eventually pathetic, finally endearing musician named Tucker Crowe — is the begetter of a begetter.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2018

Yeah, I’m aware that Code is put on by Recode, a Verge sibling under the great Vox Media begetter.

From The Verge • Jun. 3, 2016

In Boris Johnson's biography, he promotes the more liberal side of Churchill as the "begetter of some of the most progressive legislation for 200 years".

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2015

A little less agreeable and way more aggressive than its better begetter, Rio 2 has the overstuffed agenda of a movie that’s been focus-grouped to death.

From Time • Apr. 10, 2014

Its only begetter was Thomas Jefferson, and its gospel is preached in the famous Declaration of Independence.

From American Sketches 1908 by Whibley, Charles