ancestors
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While Radev said future generations would now be able to pay homage to their ancestors, Mitsotakis hailed the remains as having "incalculable cultural and spiritual but also emotional value".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
In “Animate,” Michael Bond takes readers back 15,000 years to a time when the lives of our ancestors were dominated by wild animals in a way unrecognizable to most people today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Genetic studies of living microbes belonging to groups considered closest to the ancestors of the first eukaryote can offer key insights into eukaryote ancestry.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Baby Duncan was born in Holland House, which was built by Alice's ancestors - the Traill family - who bought the island in 1727.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America at the turn of the twentieth century; any relatives of mine who died in the Holocaust were cousins of ancestors I never knew.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
