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Example sentences for: granddaddy

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Dump dad: The granddaddy of all the stupid social incentives isn't for kids, it's for dads.
The truth about government subsidies for real estate--including the granddaddy: the home-mortgage-interest deduction--is that they do very little to make housing more affordable.
I am disappointed that he missed perhaps the granddaddy of them all, one that once again broke into the front pages this last week.
You will recall that John Calvin, the granddaddy of fundamentalist Protestant preachers, founded his theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
The granddaddy of the genre appeared 15 years ago in Newsweek ("Middle-Class Junkies," Aug. 10, 1981), with language that reads as fresh today as it did then.