forefathers

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 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

He fears having to sell off parts of his family's 700-acre hill farm near Bridgend to afford a future tax bill, saying his forefathers would be "turning in their graves".

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

We have mastered this world, and yet protected it in a way that our forefathers could scarcely have dreamed.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman