forefathers
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We should marvel at what our forefathers carved out of this countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Foreign Tongues” pointedly concludes with Chuck Berry’s “Beautiful Delilah” as an homage of sorts to the forefathers who made the band’s existence possible in the first place.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
"But mining will make everything around us dirty. Our forefathers taught us to protect the forest; it is everything to us."
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
He was following in the damp footsteps of his forefathers, who started picking wild moss more than 70 years ago.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
In him and men like him is what was in our forefathers when they first came to these strange shores hundreds of years ago.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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