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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

So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

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 a flashback, Lucia explains to Amelia that her forbears were Spanish and Apache, making the young woman’s English heritage a challenge to the status quo.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

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

Like their forbears, they do their best to survive, even thrive—against all odds.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

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

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

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

“Servicers are required to offer deferral of the forborne payments to the end of the loan as the default option,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

This is no secret to my forbearing friends who slouched in theater seats next to me during, say, every Paul W. S. Anderson-directed disaster in the “Resident Evil” series.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Yet I thought that I saw a sadness in his eyes, which—despite all his forbearing elegance—told a story, and I knew, if not how, that his life was somehow tied to the Task.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

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