as in founders
a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor
Michael Faraday is widely hailed as one of the begetters of electromagnetism, the field of study that sparked a technological revolution
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And the founders understood that.—
NBC news,
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1 Feb. 2026 -
Related Stories Also in attendance were most of the very top executives in the music industry — far too many to list, but the evening’s top honorees were Republic Records founders Monte and Avery Lipman (who have also won Variety’s Hitmakers label of the year honor six out of nine years).—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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Instead of capturing footage, creators generate shots, often multiple variations of the same scene, then select and refine the results.—
Paul Ratner,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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Co-creators and hosts Woods and Nigel Poor, who taught visual arts at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, met at the prison’s media center.—
Victoria Valenzuela,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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And again the morgues and graveyards of Iran received fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.—
Azar Nafisi,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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Tisch and John Mara have functioned as the Giants franchise’s controlling owners for their respective families since the passing of their fathers, Bob Tisch and Wellington Mara, in 2005.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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And later Irish authors would continue to draw on his work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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The study authors then fed this information into a detailed three-dimensional computer model designed to simulate the sun’s internal magnetic machinery.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Begetters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begetters. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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