ancestors
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There’s lessons about learning from your mistakes, honoring your ancestors and loving yourself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Deputy Commissioner Biswajit Phukan told the BBC that most protesting families have land registered in their names or those of their ancestors, which has not been taken for the project.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a decisive phase in their evolutionary history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
"But as it is coming for those who came before me, our elders and ancestors, we know how to roll up our sleeves and fight. So that's what we're gonna do."
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
The villagers who had lived in the Zambezi Valley dug up the bones of their ancestors and carried them to new places beyond the edge of the lake.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
