ancestors
Example Sentences
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“Our cats’ ancestors were already meowing when they began living alongside humans,” Schwartz says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Grange said it could pave the way for a "long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist, if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But as political analyst Mona Charen noted, “his children are the product of a marriage between himself and the daughter of recent immigrants. Her ancestors are buried in India. Is that their ‘homeland’?
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
As their ancestors had done before them, they at last drove the Zebak from their lands.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
