forebear
Example Sentences
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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.
The DNA of medieval people buried in elite Swahili cemeteries around 1200 C.E. shows their male forebears were closely related to people in modern-day Iran.
From Science Magazine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, she provided a glimpse into the monster’s mind by listing the books read by this literary forebear to artificial intelligence.
From Scientific American
Today’s Democrats are indeed more left-wing than their forebears in many ways.
From Washington Post
As with so many other aspects of the tech ecosystem, start-ups did exactly what successive generations of their forebears did by banking with the institution that understood them best.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
