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Recent Examples of forebearer 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 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 Growing population size would have affected our forebearers another way, too: by accelerating the pace of evolution. Rachel Caspari, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2012 Based on the analysis the team built a virtual model of what this land-dwelling forebearer to flying insects looked like. Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019 Mike Brown said the digital driver license is the forebearer of discriminating against the unvaccinated. Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022 If successful, The Mayflower Autonomous Ship, named in honor of its famous nautical forebearer and known as MAS for short, will be the first such trans-Atlantic voyage by an autonomous vessel. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2021 Quaker Oats retired Aunt Jemima, allowing her real-life forebearer, Nancy Green, to step out of the shadows of a minstrel past. Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020 Chickamauga is two lakes upstream from Guntersville and other TVA lakes in Alabama, which likely means the fish or their forebearers passed through Alabama waters and that lots of them could still be there. Frank Sargeant, al, 22 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forebearer
Noun
  • The ancestors of tens of millions of Americans left miserable lives in Ireland for initially difficult ones here.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The flights will begin before Chuseok (October 15), also known as Korean Thanksgiving Day, which celebrates both the harvest and their ancestors.
    Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Saritha and the boy’s father divorced in 2018, and after, Saritha moved out of state.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The bodies of the daughter and father were pulled from the ruins of their home while doctors unsuccessfully fought for the mother’s life for more than 10 hours, Fedorov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
    Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Forebearer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forebearer. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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