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
“Lido Shuffle” appears to have two musical forebears: Fats Domino’s shuffle rhythms and Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
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
This was what must have happened with the forebears of Mami and Baby, because they were part of a unique population that had been here when the lake was created.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
