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Recent Examples of antecessor
Like Homo antecessor, the Casablanca fossils have a mix of characteristics from Homo erectus, ourselves and our cousins.
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CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
The team theorizes that the unknown species arrived in Western Europe before H. antecessor, but that the two species probably overlapped.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
—Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
The team theorizes that the unknown species arrived in Western Europe before H. antecessor, but that the two species probably overlapped.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
—Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessor
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The president noted that past military conflicts have dogged his predecessors, mentioning former President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and Jimmy Carter’s handling of the Iran hostage crisis.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Of all the new Apple phones, the standard iPhone 17 is the most like its immediate predecessor, the $699 iPhone 16, in appearance.—
Eric Zeman,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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The tradition of dressing up for the race has been in place since Potts-Joseph’s ancestors were running sleds.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2026
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Next, the team wants to use digital reconstruction methods to correct deformation on other parts of the skull, such as the braincase, to reveal insights about the brain size of Little Foot — and potentially unlock clues about the cognitive abilities of our early human ancestors.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Advertisement With Revere their progenitor, mounted messengers would over the next hours course across Middlesex County and into Essex County and Norfolk County, into the counties of Bristol and Worcester.—
Kostya Kennedy,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
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The key to calculating the amount of energy blasted out is realizing that the mass of a merger’s resulting black hole is not simply the sum of its progenitors.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Set almost entirely within the confines of an apartment and its balcony, the story unfolds over the course of a few days and centers on an unexpected duel between a grandfather and his grandson.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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The new Ozzy — named after her paternal grandfather, the former Black Sabbath frontman who died of a heart attack last July — clocked in a week ago at 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and 19 inches long, according to the photo.—
Assistant Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Nuggets forefathers witnessed him before the rest of Denver, as if it was meant to be that Jamal Murray would become one of them.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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Yet, without ceasing, another generation of Puerto Ricans pick up the mantle to chant in the streets and fight for their country, out of love for their forefathers and foremothers.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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By inhabiting the same aesthetic ideals that the poètes maudits did, which were both inspirational for and infused within the punk movement, Hell manages to gesture at the sense of transcendence which fuelled his nineteenth-century forebears.—
Taran Dugal,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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In one reading, Louise’s terrorist arc is a refreshing subversion of the political correctness of Cash’s millennial forebears, the Patricia Lockwoods and Sally Rooneys and Sheila Hetis of the world, who might never dream of straying from their lane of lived experience.—
Malavika Kannan,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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“Antecessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessor. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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