forebears

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With this new project we can learn a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears, about how they lived and what their worlds looked like.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The younger Windsors are eschewing the grinding rounds of endless ribbon-cutting their forebears engaged in to try to make fewer, more high-impact interventions heralded to the nation via social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

McKinnon, who is Black, offers a brief history of Black people in the Marine Corps as lived by his forebears.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

This was a large red-gold Labrador retriever, a young dog with all the heritage of his sturdy working forebears in his powerful build, broad noble head and deep, blunt, gentle mouth.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford