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forebears
noun as in antecedent(s)
noun as in birth
noun as in family
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noun as in lineage
noun as in menage
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Example Sentences
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.
"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.
When a monster lurches from the thicket in Dragon’s Dogma 2, which arrives on Friday, the game crackles with the cadence of its fighting forebears: the swing of a sword — bang — followed by bone-crunching pow.
Giamatti takes his surname from his father's Italian ancestry, but his family also includes forebears from Scotland.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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