progenitor

Example Sentences

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However, the panel cautioned, “so far neither the virus progenitors nor the natural/intermediate hosts or spillover event to humans have been identified.”

From Washington Post

If we need to summon the ghost of the progenitor of the so-called method of textualism, to discern what he found the law to be, might we justifiably harbor doubt about that method?

From Washington Post

The Herald Tribune was known as a writer’s newspaper, and Wald worked closely with the progenitors of the “new journalism” style of the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times

But here comes the hard part for Americans, who have been the progenitors and managers of that postwar order.

From Salon

Still, her biological ancestry is obviously important to her, and I imagine she thinks she can learn things about her progenitor through you that she can’t learn from anyone else.

From New York Times