forefathers

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The home, she said, is more than 200 years old and built by her Spanish forefathers, with a tiled courtyard in the center and Moorish accents on the masonry.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Although their forefathers were seized from West and Central Africa centuries ago, the bond between African-Americans and their ancestral home has been a lasting one.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

“What is he?” murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

"My father and forefathers collected wood from the jungle," said Mohammad Abu Taleb, 47.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

By about 300,000 years ago, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using fire on a daily basis.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari