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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: forebears

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Usage examples:

Crump said that just as African-American forebears fought for this generation, today’s Blacks have to agitate on behalf of the generations to come.

Source: https://afro.com/leaders-demand-justice-and-equal-rights-for-black-citizens-at-march-on-washington/

He is always in conversation with his forebears and contemporaries, mindful that literature is a giant web and his own work has a long ancestry and living relatives.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-11-09/michael-cunninghams-day-virginia-woolf-ifies-the-covid-pandemic

However, what is so groundbreaking about the DNA study is that Native Americans appear to have been a mixed group, having ancestors directly from Western Eurasia as well as the forebears of those who are now living in Eastern Asia.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/11/05/dna-native-americans-western-eurasia/

Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears?

Source: https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/2022-ford-focus-mild-hybrid-electric-vehicle-review-mhev-3772064

It’s also the land of my own forebears, and where my father, uncles, aunts and cousins grew up.

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/04/26/abraham-verghese-says-the-covenant-of-water-dips-into-his-familys-past/

It was almost 135 years to the week since his forebears came over from Lithuania in 1888.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/3/3/23617952/atkinsons-bernsteins-chicago-families-history-sam-lesner-vivian-harsh-collection-newberry-library

They have to prove — to themselves, to their fans, to baseball — that they will not channel their forebears, that success will not be an outlier in Queens, a happy accident.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/winning-needs-to-become-expectation-for-mets-not-exception/