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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exact replicas of their progenitors.
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Binet is considered the progenitor of intelligence testing.
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But he carved his place in Sooner lore and will go down as the progenitor of the Oklahoma program's rebirth.
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Despite the changing modes of life, they are attentive to the paradoxical utterances of their progenitor .
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Pure Przewalski's horses, genetically the closest to the wild progenitors of domestic breeds, are all in zoos.
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Thatcher was merely the midwife for Essex man: the progenitor was Tony Benn.
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They are derivative of the culture, not the progenitors of it.
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They became yet more complex, true progenitors of real plants and animals.