Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for primogenitor
Noun
  • Alcohol is a big part of those rituals in terms of paying respect to your ancestors or the dead.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But the staff at the Indian Community School were nurturing and respectful while the students learned about their ancestors' heritage.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In 1943, when the Mississippi tore away from its banks and charted a fierce and muddy course across America’s central farmlands, Gerard’s grandfather, Harold Gerard, had already fled the waters once.
    Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The film will follow a young boy sent to spend a summer with his charismatic and wildly eccentric grandfather on a remote Welsh farm.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Chilean-American actress and singer did not reveal the age of her child or the identity of the father.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His father taught him that a husband provides, a wife takes care of children.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This scaffold contains microscopic channels filled with spinal neural progenitor cells, or sNPCs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The pair's progenitors engaged in a rendezvous that stripped off the outer layers of proto-Charon to create a disk of icy debris.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Primogenitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primogenitor. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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