forbear
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If the real Queen Charlotte could claim any African cultural lineage, it would have come from a distant Portuguese forbear.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
Three decades ago, Likud, then a more traditional conservative party, shunned Mr. Ben-Gvir’s ideological forbear, Meir Kahane, for being too extreme.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
"Frankly I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forbear."
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2022
Respondent argues that there is no immediate threat of future harm, because he has and will continue to exercise personal discipline to forbear from discussing these matters in public anymore.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021
They must forbear to kill the hounds of Zeus, she said, but she swore by the waters of the Styx, the oath that none can break, that they would never again trouble Phineus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Following the trail of these minuscule treasures back in time, Mr. de Waal traced the history of his forbears among the Ephrussis, a Jewish banking family that grew prosperous in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
According to the British Museum, the Asantehene requested a loan of items of regalia belonging to his forbears.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
Now, the global transition to fully electric vehicles is littered with startups, inspired by a new era in mobility and drawn by the lower cost of building EVs compared with their fossil-fuel-guzzling forbears.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
They are the fictional forbears of Anna Delvey and every other libertine upper-class grifter one can conceive of.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
Like their forbears, they do their best to survive, even thrive—against all odds.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
These statesmen forbore going to court in part because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don’t know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
At Berlin General von Cramon scored the French for bombarding Damascus; told how Feldmarschall von der Goltz had forborne to shell Antwerp Cathedral during the obliterating German bombardments of Rheims, Verdun, Amiens, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
From Time Magazine Archive
New York's Mayor Lindsay has wisely forborne forcing the issue with protesters harmlessly occupying a state building site in Harlem.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pope had long felt the necessity of excommunicating his enemies, but had forborne up to this time in the hope that the Emperor might display some spirit of repentance.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
Doubtless, some migrate who might better have forborne; yet the instinct which draws our race toward sunset is nevertheless a true one.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
Puritan colonists in Massachusetts did the same, fining "whosoever shall be found observing Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way."
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
She is, it seems, the forbearing Diana to the Charles-and-Camilla act of Jack and Mary.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician and an endlessly forbearing man of sweet goodness, rapidly becomes the innocent victim of these diplomatic exchanges.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Aldis is generally a forbearing man, but he can be dismissive of people who don’t share his sense of urgency.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
They were kind and sweet to Darling; they were forbearing and patient with one another.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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