forefathers
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His son Ivan said moving ahead with the mine honors agreements made by their forefathers who fought to secure mineral rights here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Foreign Tongues” pointedly concludes with Chuck Berry’s “Beautiful Delilah” as an homage of sorts to the forefathers who made the band’s existence possible in the first place.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
“It’s not what our forefathers would have wanted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
Although their forefathers were seized from West and Central Africa centuries ago, the bond between African-Americans and their ancestral home has been a lasting one.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Vespucci helpfully explained that he was writing about the finding of a new world ‘of which our forefathers made absolutely no mention’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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