forebears

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Community members sometimes take their children to Maitama, now one of Abuja's most expensive neighbourhoods, to show them where their forebears lived.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“Lido Shuffle” appears to have two musical forebears: Fats Domino’s shuffle rhythms and Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 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

It washed over us and I heard more than a few people dry-heaving and vomiting, including some guards on their forebears.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia