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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancestresses
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Guests dined on a menu inspired by a collection of the couple's family history and memories, including a dim sum cocktail hour, and matzo ball soup, which was a mix of the couple’s grandmothers’ recipe.—
Emily Strohm,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026 -
The baby's name, Dianna, is a combination of her grandmothers' names, Diane and Anna.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Jan. 2026
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There’s an urge to reconnect with our heritage, and people are undertaking ancestry pilgrimages, combining boots-on-the-ground investigation into family trees and searching for documents in town halls, with discovering the places our ancestors used to call home.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Gibson is passionate about introducing fans to underrepresented voices and tipping her cap to the mothers, grandmothers, and other ancestors who inspired us all along the way.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
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Nowadays, the five members of the famed group have stepped into the role of moms themselves and are now matriarchs of their own families.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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Set in Washington Territory, circa 1854, The Abandons revolves around the matriarchs of two very different families, payed by Headey and Anderson.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2026
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Mamdani was born in Uganda to Indian parents, and Duwaji in Texas to Syrian Muslim progenitors.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
2 Jan. 2026
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Skye and Billy’s progenitors, by contrast, are revealed to have been free-spirited and independent-minded people who simply left out lots of their complicated, peripatetic story.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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But Wallace, alert to the sexism of his forebears and eager to demonstrate his own feminism, once sounded a lot like Lockwood.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Unlike their forebears, however, today’s boneless couches are not high design but rather attainable furniture.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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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
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Their twins—John and William, named for their grandfathers—were lost.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Nov. 2025
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In his latest partnership with Ancestry as part of the organization’s Thank You for Your Service campaign, Bass got to learn even more about both of his grandfathers’ service in the war.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Ancestresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancestresses. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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