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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.

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McKinnon, who is Black, offers a brief history of Black people in the Marine Corps as lived by his forebears.

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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".

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Current eugenics rhetoric is, like its forebear, fundamentally incoherent.

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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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