Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for primogenitor
Noun
  • The norm is for ancient dugouts found in southern Florida to be linked to ancestors of the Calusa, the Seminole or the Miccosukee, according to the Florida Division of Historical Resources.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This provides excellent evidence that all life on Earth shares one common ancestor.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • La Luz del Mundo was founded by Joaquin's grandfather, Eusebio Joaquin Gonzalez, in 1926 and was later led by Joaquin's father, Samuel Joaquin Flores.
    Luc Cohen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This is not your father’s or grandfather’s Atherton High School football program, and never was that more evident than Tuesday’s practice at the school.
    Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Celebrating the assassination of a 31 year old father of two young kids is disturbing; that teachers would be among those who do so is completely unacceptable.
    Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • His father, a hard-working Russian immigrant and patriotic US bomber pilot, taught him to respect authority.
    Martine Paris, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The study concluded that when humans go to space, the aging of their hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, or HSPCs, accelerates.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This scaffold contains microscopic channels filled with spinal neural progenitor cells, or sNPCs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Primogenitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primogenitor. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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