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
Regarded as the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, he succeeded in achieving the incomprehensible.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
