- a variation of forebear.
forbear
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But if “Cabinet of Curiosities” has a spiritual forbear, it is someone more sinister.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Bellatine and Isaac know nothing of this Russian forbear, having both distanced themselves from their roots.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
"Frankly I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forbear."
From Reuters ● Feb. 3, 2022
Respondent argues that there is no immediate threat of future harm, because he has and will continue to exercise personal discipline to forbear from discussing these matters in public anymore.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2021
The slaves, when they heard this, clustered close about him and embraced him; and he embraced them, and none could forbear weeping.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Following the trail of these minuscule treasures back in time, Mr. de Waal traced the history of his forbears among the Ephrussis, a Jewish banking family that grew prosperous in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
But for all its forbears, this spooky-ooky 1989-set romance has a thoroughly modern sensibility, and it’s about to be the new obsession of quirky teens everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
The incredible energetic potential of tides was spotted by our medieval forbears.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Now, the global transition to fully electric vehicles is littered with startups, inspired by a new era in mobility and drawn by the lower cost of building EVs compared with their fossil-fuel-guzzling forbears.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Like their forbears, they do their best to survive, even thrive—against all odds.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He forbore to attack Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam in 1968, he said, because he feared that he might jeopardize the fledgling negotiations in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others.
From Time Magazine Archive
Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don’t know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
“Servicers are required to offer deferral of the forborne payments to the end of the loan as the default option,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
At Berlin General von Cramon scored the French for bombarding Damascus; told how Feldmarschall von der Goltz had forborne to shell Antwerp Cathedral during the obliterating German bombardments of Rheims, Verdun, Amiens, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
New York's Mayor Lindsay has wisely forborne forcing the issue with protesters harmlessly occupying a state building site in Harlem.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is persuaded that something must be annually forborne, in order to make her peace.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
The gregarious, neurotic Sasha has done the inviting, but the bulk of the housekeeping duties will fall on his not always forbearing wife, Masha.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
Yet “Pride” powerfully complicates his persona, and hints what should have been obvious all along: that Pride has always been as savvy and knowing as he’s been forbearing.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2019
Mr. Finlayson is a thoughtful young trumpeter with a distinctive, forbearing voice as an improviser and a composer.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
Her therapist, played by Cheyenne Jackson, comes across as a gentle forbearing soul.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2017
The gray-haired man turned his head again toward the girl, perhaps to show her how forbearing, even stoic, his countenance was.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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