forefathers

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“It’s not what our forefathers would have wanted.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

He was following in the damp footsteps of his forefathers, who started picking wild moss more than 70 years ago.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

“What is he?” murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

"The streets were so crowded that, as our forefathers said, you could hardly move."

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

Vespucci helpfully explained that he was writing about the finding of a new world ‘of which our forefathers made absolutely no mention’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton