ancestor
Example Sentences
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“My ancestors, my parents, all the hardship we’ve gone through as Indigenous people, and we still have to suffer? It’s enough,” Cruz said.
From Los Angeles Times
Modern environments differ dramatically from those our ancestors experienced, which may help explain why certain genetic traits no longer serve us as well as they once did.
From Science Daily
The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.
Wearing Celtic clothing and elaborate, nature-inspired headdresses, druids and pagans danced around the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to have been built by distant ancestors to align with the movements of the Sun.
From BBC
“Those individuals feel threatened. What do you think our ancestors felt?”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
