ancestor
Example Sentences
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We plant, thin, burn and harvest according to knowledge passed down from our ancestors.
Go back far enough and these pathways invariably converge, leading to life’s ultimate source and origin—the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA.
“My ancestors, my parents, all the hardship we’ve gone through as Indigenous people, and we still have to suffer? It’s enough,” Cruz said.
From Los Angeles Times
Modern environments differ dramatically from those our ancestors experienced, which may help explain why certain genetic traits no longer serve us as well as they once did.
From Science Daily
The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
