begetter
Example Sentences
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In his later years, however, Capra cast himself as the sole begetter of any film he had directed.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019
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
I daresay Mr. William O'Brien set out with the honest intention of blessing the Government plan, of which indeed he claims to be the "onlie begetter."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
