Sentence examples for be a progenitor from inspiring English sources
(Les Demoiselles d'Avignon might be understood to be a progenitor of the Russian Ballet's cubist sensibility: the curve of those ballets, the colour, the sense of space, the notion of sexual freedom).
Lending his eponym to phenomena such as Charcot's Joint (diabetic arthropathy), Charcot's Triad (acute cholangitis) and most notably Charcot's Disease (ALS), the French physician is widely considered to be a progenitor of modern neuroscience and psychology.
Although aneuploidy may itself be a progenitor of cancer, it has been widely considered as possible indirect agency in CIN and chromosomal mis-segregation [68].
In an ambitious book-length study of Reichenbach's theory, McMahon (1976) takes Reichenbach's proposal to be a progenitor of Chomsky's theory of syntax, and attempts to supplement Reichenbach's account with appropriate re-write rules.
However, a massive-star system could be a progenitor of life in another way – the supernova explosion of the massive star in the central part of the system.
Originating in Northern folklore and the most horrible of all the demons of the Scottish islands, its name may be a progenitor of that by which Satan is sometimes known, Old Nick.
This suggested that the distal airway cells present in HLOs might be a progenitor-like population.
When it came to the Western Hemisphere in 1968, it was a progenitor of the childless resort.
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are a progenitor population located throughout the brain that serve vital functions in development and plasticity.
The Well was a progenitor of AOL, Facebook and other forms of social networking.
McCall is a progenitor of what today is called "steam punk," the retro-styling of current high technology (like making computers look Victorian) as both critical commentary and expression of weariness of the new.
