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foremother

[fawr-muhth-er, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌmʌð ər, ˈfoʊr- /






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Like its foremother, “Twilight,” “The In Between” depicts a pedantic girl in a supernatural world who’s willing to die for her boyfriend.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2022

Even today, many in the country of 12 million know little about their foremother.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2021

I also found the reboot too glossy, too chic, and rather boring when compared with its foremother.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2020

“She’s a pioneering performance artist and poet, a mystic, a feminist foremother for a whole generation of women artists and writers.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2020

One of their families takes its name from its foremother, the warlock's daughter who was provided with the dogskin mentioned on a previous page.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland




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