granddaddy
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Mr. Saad calls postmodernism “the granddaddy of all parasitic ideas.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Good things can come in old packages, and that’s the case with the exchange-traded fund, the granddaddy of tech-focused ETFs, which trades under the ticker XLK.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
When I FaceTime with my darling Daisy, I worry she won’t see past my dour expression and never know how much her granddaddy loves her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025
If you get lost in the luminous orange peepers of housecats or the baby blues of white tigers, thank the granddaddy of all felines—an ocelotlike creature that lived more than 30 million years ago.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 13, 2023
My granddaddy wanted to protect me, to keep me safe.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
HSCs are the granddaddies of the immune system, giving rise to all the other types of blood and immune cells including B and T cells, which are collectively known as lymphocytes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
I thought back to how Black grandmas and granddaddies filled the American streets in the 1960s, with Bibles in their hands, their brown and dark faces determined to be free.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2021
At home, boys and men, fathers, uncles and granddaddies sat glued to their 18-inch Admiral TVs as they did every weekend night.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2012
But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed that the meanings did no dishonor to British Liberalism's revered granddaddies.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the coracle floated on the water, the whole family, daddy, mammy, kiddies, and any old aunts or uncles, or granddaddies, got into it.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by Griffis, William Elliot
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