How to Use progenitor in a Sentence

progenitor

noun
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  • But by the close of the 20th century, the shirt’s progenitor seemed to have lost the thread.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Iron was formed in the cores of the massive first stars that were the progenitors of the metal-poor ones, Ezzeddine says.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 31 May 2019
  • The study suggests that stem and progenitor cells are younger than the rest of the organ, Conboy said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • Farewell, sweet iPod — namesake of the podcast, progenitor of the iPhone.
    — Vulture, 13 May 2022
  • Kanye in some ways is the progenitor of what’s going on in our culture.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
  • There’s an à-la-carte menu, and a shop-the-pantry conceit that harks back to the whole dinner-in-a-deli vibe of its Roman progenitor.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The progenitor cells are placed in the inner ear and can create the tiny hair cells that our hearing relies on.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 May 2022
  • This is because to leave the black hole detected today, the progenitor star must have possessed around 20 times the mass of the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The band’s first album was a solid progenitor of art rock.
    — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Just remember, all of these moves stem from the same progenitor, the standard pushup.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2023
  • Perhaps each of the two progenitor pairs were born and lived out their lives as stars together.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 2 July 2021
  • Their tasting menu changes seasonally, based on both the whims of its progenitor and the land.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The release said the progenitor star that turned into the black hole would have been at least 20 times as massive as the sun and only lived a few million years.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Such a disk would be composed of matter from the progenitor massive star.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
  • No one can accuse this film of not being true to the spirit of its progenitor, which again will be a big plus for nostalgists.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
  • The Lyrids Meteor Shower has been known to humans for at least 2,700 years, yet not much is known about its progenitor comet.
    — George Dvorsky / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • One band was so enraptured with the song and its progenitor that its members named their group after the legendary cut.
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • His design would measure the spectrum and shape of the initial Cherenkov flash and thus the energy of the progenitor antineutrinos from the positrons.
    — Jesse Emspak, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • As the progenitor stars to die, the other star in the system with siphon a whole bunch of material off of the progenitor to keep for itself.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Walter Pater, the progenitor of art for art’s sake, said all art aspires to the condition of music.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • The team decided to target hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), stem cells found in bone marrow that give rise to a range of blood cells.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Then progenitor and offspring burst out of the cell, enter neighboring red blood cells and the process continues.
    — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Finding such a pattern reveals important clues as to what could [be] the progenitor of FRBs.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • Best known as the leader and electric bassist of the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, Waters, now 73, is one of the major progenitors of the concept album.
    — Alexa Peters, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
  • The researchers induced the cells to form nascent brain tissue—neural progenitor cells—using a cocktail of drugs and proteins.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The Crab Nebula has a pulsar, indicating that the core of its supernova progenitor was less than 2.8 times the mass of the sun.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Birtherism, which attempted to undercut a landmark election in which the turnout rate among Black voters nearly matched that of whites, was a progenitor of the Big Lie.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • In fact, the progenitor of the present experimental model goes back about five years when T.P. Hall, a Convair employe, made the first one in his spare time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Compare that to one of the progenitors of buddy cops everywhere, The French Connection.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
  • This is based on pure conjecture that the lab was working either on the virus itself or a close progenitor that somehow escaped into the wild.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023

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