- plural of forebear.
forebears
Example Sentences
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On view at LACMA, David Hockney’s ‘Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos’ travels country roads, recording the scene in ways that echo artistic forebears.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
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
Community members sometimes take their children to Maitama, now one of Abuja's most expensive neighbourhoods, to show them where their forebears lived.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The younger Windsors are eschewing the grinding rounds of endless ribbon-cutting their forebears engaged in to try to make fewer, more high-impact interventions heralded to the nation via social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
He was not wrong, Jon Connington reflected, leaning on the battlements of his forebears.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
