forebear

Pennsylvania plays a key role in the NAR’s plans, and reinventing the state’s eponymous founder, William Penn, as a like-minded forebear — rather than the champion of religious diversity and secular government he actually was — is a core part of their strategy, as advanced by NAR apostle Abby Abildness.

While the 2024 Olympics will look and feel a far cry from their forebear – as Paris welcomes 10,500 athletes to take part in its grand calendar of sports, none of them featuring a paintbrush – the 1924 edition helped to point the way towards the global spectacle we recognise as the Games today.

Named for its Star Trek forebear, Holodeck generates a virtually limitless range of indoor environments, using AI to interpret users' requests.

At the moment, none of the new hominins is convincing as a direct forebear of Homo.

In the 1940s, it was renamed the Glynne Arms but was condemned as unsafe and scheduled for demolition until a forebear of Marston’s bought it and made it safe.