forebears
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Social media, however, and its cabal of influencers operate along many of the same lines as their reality TV forebears.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 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
Suddenly, it was over, and the U.S. men joined their golden forebears from Lake Placid and Squaw Valley 1960.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
But she knew that her father came from Quaker stock, and that he was proud of his forebears.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
