forebears

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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

McKinnon, who is Black, offers a brief history of Black people in the Marine Corps as lived by his forebears.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Members of the Nama ethnic group—whose forebears were ousted from their land by German colonial authorities 120 years ago—in June filed a complaint with the United Nations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

“I have forebears buried beneath the rocks of Cairns.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin