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
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
As we embraced, he could not forbear to shed a tear.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
In the way of his forbears, Gibson uses beads sourced from all over the world, including vintage beads from Japan and China, and glass beads from the Venetian island of Murano.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
According to the British Museum, the Asantehene requested a loan of items of regalia belonging to his forbears.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
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
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
These statesmen forbore going to court in part because they doubted the courts would, or should, be open to them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He forbore to attack Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam in 1968, he said, because he feared that he might jeopardize the fledgling negotiations in Paris.
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
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
The Kerrs he had forborne to harm, but he only hated them the more on that account.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
The drinke of my brydecup I should have forborne, Till temperaunce had tempred the taste beforne.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
Howard is persnickety but forbearing and appreciates quirks.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2023
She had a contract to write a “cheerful dinner-party cookbook” but instead handed her forbearing editors “The Year of Miracles,” a luminous memoir about grieving, renewal and the twin consolations of friendship and cooking.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 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
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
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
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