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forebear

[fawr-bair, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌbɛər, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
ancestor
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That forebear was a 1961 pop-up where the artist made and sold his own rough-hewn goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Dept. of Speculation” by Jenny Offill is a forebear of the short-and-sweet literary canon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

The “Love Story” forebear that matters most in this discussion is not John F. Kennedy or Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

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

She tipped the forebear forward and we hurtled down some more, and whatever protests I was going to make died in my throat.

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

The story has elements similar to popular summer blockbusters, but they’re so finely remixed and retooled that they don’t bear such exhausting resemblance to their forebears.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

He told Ugen he was "married to the movement" and his forebears had fought against China.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

On view at LACMA, David Hockney’s ‘Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos’ travels country roads, recording the scene in ways that echo artistic forebears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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

The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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