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forebear

noun as in ancestor

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Spain rebuffed the president’s demands, with government officials telling journalists that the nation’s current leaders should not be held responsible for the actions of their forebears.

Gender, the color of our skin, or the countries our forebears came from have nothing to do with it.

From Salon

"Our forebears recognized the lack of a suitable beach and found the perfect solution by building our magnificent Victorian pier at Garth Point, which now attracts over 80,000 visitors a year," its statement added.

From BBC

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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