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

The objection that ‘Mr. W. H.’ could not have been Thorpe’s friend in trade, because while wishing him all happiness and eternity Thorpe dubs him ‘the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets,’ is not formidable. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir