forebears

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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

With this new project we can learn a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears, about how they lived and what their worlds looked like.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 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

Sherpas are a mountain people, devoutly Buddhist, whose forebears migrated south from Tibet four or five centuries ago.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer