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our forefathers bought this farm, and our family has worked it for three generations
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Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to get away from a tyrannical monarch and indifferent legislators, not to create our own homegrown version of it.
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Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
The Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Constitution Center, the Museum of the American Revolution, and smaller outfits like Eastern State Penitentiary and Historic Germantown will, as expected, reimagine the history of our republic in an homage to the forefathers’ ingenuity.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
My forefathers helped form the Soviet identity and its rituals, even before there was a country to promote them.
—Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
But the Nelsons — Lukas and his dad, the outlaw country forefather Willie — are no ordinary family.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
The Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Constitution Center, the Museum of the American Revolution, and smaller outfits like Eastern State Penitentiary and Historic Germantown will, as expected, reimagine the history of our republic in an homage to the forefathers’ ingenuity.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
My forefathers helped form the Soviet identity and its rituals, even before there was a country to promote them.
—Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
But the Nelsons — Lukas and his dad, the outlaw country forefather Willie — are no ordinary family.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
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“Forefather.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forefather. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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forefather
noun
fore·fa·ther
ˈfō(ə)r-ˌfät͟h-ər 
ˈfȯ(ə)r-,
-ˌfȧt͟h-
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: a person of an earlier period and similar culture
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