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forebear
noun as in ancestor
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Members of the Nama ethnic group—whose forebears were ousted from their land by German colonial authorities 120 years ago—in June filed a complaint with the United Nations.
McKinnon, who is Black, offers a brief history of Black people in the Marine Corps as lived by his forebears.
She also believes that it is important for the Muslim community to be aware of their forebears who "volunteered for service voluntarily and gave of their best".
Current eugenics rhetoric is, like its forebear, fundamentally incoherent.
The vice-president is believed to be staying in Ayrshire, just north of Galloway, the area he says his forebears left in the 17th Century.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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