forefathers

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“It’s not what our forefathers would have wanted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

"The streets were so crowded that, as our forefathers said, you could hardly move."

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

This country was built on the shoulders of our forefathers who were “banished” to the Americas.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2024

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