forebears

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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

She also started incorporating images of other inspiring women, including her maternal forebears and the Cuban American sculptor Ana Mendieta.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

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

One of the Lynxley forebears invented a system of “weather walls” that ensure each type of animal can exist in his own ideal climate, from snowbound plains to the savannah.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

It washed over us and I heard more than a few people dry-heaving and vomiting, including some guards on their forebears.

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