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
Father, begetter of the gods and of men, establishing dwellings and granting gifts, Calling to sovereignty, giving the sceptre, who decreest destinies for distant days.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
