forefathers

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The home, she said, is more than 200 years old and built by her Spanish forefathers, with a tiled courtyard in the center and Moorish accents on the masonry.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 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

Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were also forefathers of the movement, but it was Sabbath that "cemented it," adds Taylor.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

My family, the Lekuton family, always goes first because it is huge and because many of my forefathers were leaders.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola