forebear

Maye’s been so persuasive it’s provoking inevitable but treacherous comparisons to Brady, his carbohydrate-shunning forebear, now immortalized in 12 feet of handsome bronze outside the Foxborough gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

But the sitcom’s true progenitor is “The Golden Girls,” which is also the spiritual forebear to “Sex and the City.”

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

Named for its Star Trek forebear, Holodeck generates a virtually limitless range of indoor environments, using AI to interpret users' requests.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

At the moment, none of the new hominins is convincing as a direct forebear of Homo.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

A guard coasted off of a rail to a floating stop a foot or so above the ground, his forebear humming as he balanced on it.

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

Social media, however, and its cabal of influencers operate along many of the same lines as their reality TV forebears.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The state was home to some of the forebears of Hindu nationalism, including the first president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the BJP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

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

Suddenly, it was over, and the U.S. men joined their golden forebears from Lake Placid and Squaw Valley 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

Although human beings have been walking upright for millions of years, it was not until 25,000 years ago that our forebears invented art.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell