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Recent Examples of antecessor
The team theorizes that the unknown species arrived in Western Europe before H. antecessor, but that the two species probably overlapped.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
With that information, the researchers could place H. antecessor more confidently within the human lineage.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
But visual inspection could not resolve where H. antecessor fit in the hominin lineup.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
—Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
The EVAs are both primal antecessors and evolved descendants of humans; occasionally, the two beings are one and the same.
—Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
In addition to marks showing flesh was stripped from the bone, evidence suggests the Gran Dolina residents—an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor—ate their victims’ brains.
—Kevin Webb, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
With that information, the researchers could place H. antecessor more confidently within the human lineage.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
But visual inspection could not resolve where H. antecessor fit in the hominin lineup.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
—Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
The EVAs are both primal antecessors and evolved descendants of humans; occasionally, the two beings are one and the same.
—Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
In addition to marks showing flesh was stripped from the bone, evidence suggests the Gran Dolina residents—an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor—ate their victims’ brains.
—Kevin Webb, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessor
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Whereas Main Street’s predecessor as recently as October of 2024 had planned to void all of its legacy MLB deals but for one, the company entered the new season with nine clubs under contract.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Larry, who died in January, was a 31-year veteran of the New York office of FTA and its predecessor, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA), who began as a political appointee in 1981 under the Reagan administration and stayed, switching over to being in the career civil service.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2025
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The auntie’s going to always be there for her niece as an ancestor.—
Fox Maxy,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2025
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The ephemerides were the ancestors of astronomical tables, which still exist.—
James Byrne,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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By 1900, tonkatsu pork cutlet (progenitor of the katsu sando) had been invented at a restaurant called Rengatei in the ultra-modern Ginza district, which also gave rise to omurice (a phonetic portmanteau of omelet and rice).—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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This version of the Democratic Party, which featured the progenitor of wokeism, Obama himself, as the leading presidential campaign trail surrogate for Harris, was thoroughly rejected in November by the American people.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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The complainants said the abusive behavior began as soon as Farley, a 26-year veteran of the department whose father and grandfather were deputy chiefs, was appointed the top job.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Eala’s grandfather, a tennis buff, introduced all his grandchildren to the sport at his local club.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The British Last Week Tonight host, who previously served as a writer and correspondent on The Daily Show for seven years, returned during Monday's episode to jokingly celebrate the country becoming just like its forefather.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Rise up like the American forefathers did a few hundred years ago.—
Joe Hudicka,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The country’s new leaders could learn from the mistakes of their Islamist forebears and avoid a system of government with slim chances of success.—
Marwan Muasher,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Feb. 2025
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This culminates in a Satanic-possession plot that eschews the pseudo-realism of Longlegs’s detective-thriller forebears.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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Like its classic-rock forebearer Desert Trip, the concert will bring two acts per night to Indio’s Empire Polo Club, on the weekend of Oct. 6-8.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2023
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After leaving Alabama, Avinger served a year in the U.S. Army, then signed for a season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, one of the forebearers of the Canadian Football League.—
Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com,
al,
17 Apr. 2023
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“Antecessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessor. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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