Meaning & use
Sired
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Fathered an offspring, typically used of male animals, or, more broadly, originated or gave rise to something.
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The champion racehorse has sired dozens of foals since retiring from the track.
That early prototype sired an entire generation of modern smartphones.
A note on using this word
"Sire" as a noun is also a formal, old-fashioned term of address for a king, preserving its root sense of a male progenitor or head of a line.
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