ancestor

That ancestor is estimated to have lived during the Early Miocene, an interval spanning roughly 23 million to 16 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

"A reimagined Citroën 2CV should give a big nod to its ancestor - especially on price and design simplicity as well as visual cues," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Paul Theroux’s travelogue takes him to the land of an ancestor who arrived by “dumb luck and good timing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

About 160 million years ago, near the end of the Jurassic Period, the common ancestor of all placental mammals, whose young develop in the womb, appeared.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Somehow I know that those are the ancient words that the old man Toby first spoke to my ancestor Sarah.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

In the mid-17th century Morris’s ancestors settled in what would become the Bronx, N.Y., and flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers," noted coauthor Dr. Meng Jin of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

On Día de los Muertos, it is believed that the spirits of ancestors return to visit the living.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

He has said that while the role his ancestors played in the slave trade was "deeply, deeply regrettable ... no-one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The framed photos of her mother’s ancestors, all the way back to when they’d first come to California from Japan.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz