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Noun
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In Waorani territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon, two grandmothers reacts differently as a road cuts into the forest.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
14 May 2026 -
The audience in Newark reflected this diverse age range, with toddlers, grandmothers, and everyone in between in attendance.—
Danny Hajjar,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2026
Noun
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This is among the most universal pieces of advice from our ancestors.—
Jonathan Haidt,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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One by one, group members tearfully thanked their ancestors and poured white rum on the beach.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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But Sterling also likes to return to her roots and whip up a simple 15-minute pasta dinner that reminds her of one of her beloved matriarchs.—
Karla Walsh,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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Upending age-old narrative traditions, Paul’s heroism takes a sinister turn when Herbert reveals that the Bene Gesserit, an Illuminati-like secretive order of psychic matriarchs, has long been conditioning the Fremen to expect the arrival of a messiah, or mahdi, in their native tongue.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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To get to the bottom of things, though, the team behind the new research examined the host galaxies and environments of LFBOTs to try to pin down what the progenitors of these explosive events could really be.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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In a scene following the triumph of successfully creating a human blastocyst outside the womb, IVF’s three progenitors face the Medical Research Council.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Generations of Irish schoolchildren studied the language of their forebears.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 May 2026
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Conversely, maybe the fact that their songs, while impressively self-possessed, weren’t directly confrontational has kept them from being counted as forebears to the feminist punks who would come after.—
Marissa Lorusso,
Pitchfork,
3 May 2026
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Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success.—
Linh Tat,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
30 Mar. 2026
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And if the cabinet grandfathers only the HS classes of 2024 and 2025 while applying the new rule to 2026 graduates, an entire cohort gets jammed onto the same clock as players one and two years older—a cliff disguised as a transition.—
Daryl G. Jones,
Sportico.com,
15 May 2026
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The captains were the fathers, or at least the grandfathers, of this genre.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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