granddaddy

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When you look at the opportunity to bring in 15, 17 years of experience, pedigree, pipeline, timeline, management, all of those things from really the granddaddy system of them all, that is always extremely interesting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Madison, the great granddaddy of all constitutional decisions.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

“By creating a carousel with his famed figures, he in a sense gets to be Disney. Who doesn’t have great memories associated with state fairs, carnivals and the granddaddy of those, Disneyland?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023

If you get lost in the luminous orange peepers of housecats or the baby blues of white tigers, thank the granddaddy of all felines—an ocelotlike creature that lived more than 30 million years ago.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 13, 2023

If Lizzie wasn’t there waiting for him by the shore, Turner would figure her granddaddy needed her, and he would wait, hoping she might come around the turn.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt