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But if “Cabinet of Curiosities” has a spiritual forbear, it is someone more sinister.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 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

At one point in the memo, Bailer says, “Our battle cry remains, ‘Forbear them, forbear them, make them relinquish the ball.’

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019

I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

The incredible energetic potential of tides was spotted by our medieval forbears.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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

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

According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions.

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

These statesmen forbore going to court in part because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of delicacy, he forbore to tell her that Boots was no longer exactly male.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

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 could have forborne to do wrong, if he had had the will.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Pope vowed he had erred in the opposite direction, and had forborne to praise Lord Lansdowne up to the height of his deserts out of deference to his modesty.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

She is, it seems, the forbearing Diana to the Charles-and-Camilla act of Jack and Mary.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022

Lubin maintained a forbearing, almost mischievous smile, and in his customary flat tone disputed the assertions one at a time.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018

Mr. Finlayson is a thoughtful young trumpeter with a distinctive, forbearing voice as an improviser and a composer.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018

Her therapist, played by Cheyenne Jackson, comes across as a gentle forbearing soul.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2017

The gray-haired man turned his head again toward the girl, perhaps to show her how forbearing, even stoic, his countenance was.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger