Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessors
Noun
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Jackson’s use of veto power also distinguished him from his predecessors.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026 -
Unlike his previous three predecessors, Mora’s already got one foot in several doors on that last front.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Connie Martin always knew who her ancestors were growing up.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Some of those ancestors left Africa to explore Europe.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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My grandfathers had both been miners whose early deaths owed much to their working lives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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And the same impressive nature was true of both women's grandfathers, says Jones.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Somewhere in Africa there is a city, town, or village where Henry Fordham’s progenitors lived and died for hundreds or thousands of years, where my distant relatives walk the streets today.—
Eugene Robinson,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 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
Noun
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But beneath the surface, new technology promises Artemis astronauts mobility on the moon that their Apollo-era forebears could only dream about.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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However, teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And again the morgues and graveyards of Iran received fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.—
Azar Nafisi,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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Tisch and John Mara have functioned as the Giants franchise’s controlling owners for their respective families since the passing of their fathers, Bob Tisch and Wellington Mara, in 2005.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Our grandmothers were queens of the freezer, along with a zillion other ways to avoid food waste.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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That looks like grandmothers delivering hot meals to those on the frontlines.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Antecessors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessors. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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