forebear
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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
But the sitcom’s true progenitor is “The Golden Girls,” which is also the spiritual forebear to “Sex and the City.”
From Salon ● May 29, 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
Thandiwe placed her forebear on the ground and stepped on it, then looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
This generation of ETFs isn’t just more expensive and risky than its forebears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Ms. Simard’s own forebears worked the Canadian forests in this manner, which has the virtue of leaving lots of organic material behind while going easy on the springy, carbon-rich forest floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site, which archaeologists hope could reveal "a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
One of her royal forebears had said that, once.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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