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And delivery companies have even joined the fray, with Uber Eats partnering with the granddaddy of reservation apps, OpenTable, and DoorDash buying SevenRooms, a reservation-management system geared toward higher-end restaurants, for $1.2 billion last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Good things can come in old packages, and that’s the case with the exchange-traded fund, the granddaddy of tech-focused ETFs, which trades under the ticker XLK.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Madison, the great granddaddy of all constitutional decisions.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

“By creating a carousel with his famed figures, he in a sense gets to be Disney. Who doesn’t have great memories associated with state fairs, carnivals and the granddaddy of those, Disneyland?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

And she don’t see any sense a-tall in your granddaddy marryin’ like he did.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

HSCs are the granddaddies of the immune system, giving rise to all the other types of blood and immune cells including B and T cells, which are collectively known as lymphocytes.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

I thought back to how Black grandmas and granddaddies filled the American streets in the 1960s, with Bibles in their hands, their brown and dark faces determined to be free.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021

At home, boys and men, fathers, uncles and granddaddies sat glued to their 18-inch Admiral TVs as they did every weekend night.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2012

One of the jeweled granddaddies of museums reopens after a major expansion and renovation by the architects Voorsanger & Associates.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the coracle floated on the water, the whole family, daddy, mammy, kiddies, and any old aunts or uncles, or granddaddies, got into it.

From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis