ancestor

It is unclear exactly how the sculpture came to be in the Cotswolds, but the family presume it was bought at auction by an ancestor in the mid 1900s.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Thanks to an ancestor who wished to never feel the agony of love again, any man the Owens women fall in love with ends up dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

She arrived a few days before Día de los Muertos, a day of ancestor veneration in Mexican states like Michoacan, Jalisco and Oaxaca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A human, an octopus, and a coral may appear to have almost nothing in common, but their chromosomes still contain recognizable fragments inherited from an animal ancestor that lived more than 600 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

I asked Mother which ancestor I should choose, and without thinking she said, “Anna Mathea.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

I do not have faith in gods the way my ancestors had faith in Zeus.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Our cats’ ancestors were already meowing when they began living alongside humans,” Schwartz says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Researchers propose that the ancestors of Dasosaurus tocantinensis reached South America by moving through North Africa sometime between 140 and 120 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Grange said it could pave the way for a "long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured".

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Whoops! I know I should not say Ashton Place is wretched, for that is disrespectful to Fredrick, not to mention his poor ancestors, all of whom died such gruesome deaths—but you know what I mean.”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood