forebear

variants also forbear

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Recent Examples of forebear From horses to housewares Santos remembers riding horses up to his family home; for generations, this was a ranch belonging to his forebears. David Culver, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025 Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of hubris as a potent ingredient of tragedy, both developments contributed to a crippling debt crisis that raised questions about Greek membership in the European Union and ballooned into a broader crisis across the eurozone. Alan Cowell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025 An exciting crop of younger players are impatient to usurp their forebears, the American men are looking to take the next step and if the ATP Next Gen Finals is anything to go by, an 18-year-old from Rio de Janeiro called Joao Fonseca is going to be a problem very soon. Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 Foreign and domestic businesses and crypto capitalists will rewire the infrastructure of the world economy to make more money, just as their forebears did in the early days of the U.S. empire, when the state was underdeveloped. Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for forebear
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Noun
  • The Cajuns of south Louisiana trace their ancestors to the French Acadians exiled from Nova Scotia around 1755.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Our ancestors crossed a vast ocean, strode into the unknown wilderness, and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although years have passed since Belle's lies were exposed, Nick — now a father of two — still feels unsettled by his sister's actions, and wants to keep his children away from her.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
  • There are implications that the two central fathers of the piece have clashed before, though the more jarring examples of tangential threads concern a performing troupe with whom Tornado has a pre-existing relationship.
    Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Journalism is part of my heritage: My great great grandfather was a Civil War correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Not only with the union, but with many beyond the company’s workers – including its retirees and a much larger number of voters spread across the industrial Midwest who remember the company’s former might, when their fathers, grandfathers or even great-grandfathers worked there.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Forebear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forebear. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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