forebear

Maye’s been so persuasive it’s provoking inevitable but treacherous comparisons to Brady, his carbohydrate-shunning forebear, now immortalized in 12 feet of handsome bronze outside the Foxborough gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Frances Dinkenspiel is an author and journalist who has written a lot about California, including the book “Towers of Gold,” about her forebear, the pioneering banker and landowner Isaias Hellman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

Gifted in prophecy, he had as forebear that Melampous, wizard who lived of old in Pylos, mother city of western flocks.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

He told Ugen he was "married to the movement" and his forebears had fought against China.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

With this new project we can learn a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears, about how they lived and what their worlds looked like.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

“Lido Shuffle” appears to have two musical forebears: Fats Domino’s shuffle rhythms and Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

She also started incorporating images of other inspiring women, including her maternal forebears and the Cuban American sculptor Ana Mendieta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

The colt was a descendant of the mighty Man o’ War through his sire, the brilliantly fast, exceptionally handsome Hard Tack, but his stunted build reflected none of the beauty and breadth of his forebears.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand