How to Use progenitor in a Sentence

progenitor

noun
  • Kanye in some ways is the progenitor of what’s going on in our culture.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
  • None of these options work well for dealing with wild progenitors of species such as yaks and camels.
    — Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • Perhaps each of the two progenitor pairs were born and lived out their lives as stars together.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 2 July 2021
  • Such a disk would be composed of matter from the progenitor massive star.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Just remember, all of these moves stem from the same progenitor, the standard pushup.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 2 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • That means the mass range of stellar mass black holes is set by the masses of the progenitor stars that created them.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Usually, there’s some moment in these kinds of films that functions as a nod to its progenitor.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2024
  • 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 study suggests that stem and progenitor cells are younger than the rest of the organ, Conboy said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • In Anne Rice lore, Akasha is known as the progenitor of all vampires.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Farewell, sweet iPod — namesake of the podcast, progenitor of the iPhone.
    — Vulture, 13 May 2022
  • While there are still rides and water, the park is a considerably more cautious version of its progenitor.
    — Jack McCallum, SI.com, 1 July 2019
  • The bar codes in blood cells, for example, indicated that almost all of a fish’s blood arose from just five progenitor cells.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Then progenitor and offspring burst out of the cell, enter neighboring red blood cells and the process continues.
    — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The progenitor of party culture, no one did it better than Puff Daddy back in the day.
    — Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The progenitor of the famous phrase shot a 63 here on a sunny spring day in 2009.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • That is because their brightness may be strongly affected by the age of the progenitor stars of these explosive events.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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 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
  • More often than not, the internet has been the progenitor of movements, changes, and trends in the real, physical world.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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