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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessors
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Those deals, however, were executed by Johnson’s predecessors.
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There is something stereotypically masculine about the kind of chest-pumping, overly stylish translations of your predecessors.
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Like their ancient ancestors, visitors standing at the center of the stone circle on Sunday will be able to watch the sun rise above the Heel Stone to the northeast — weather depending, of course.
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How did some of our oldest ancestors make the first step onto land some 350 million years ago?
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Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere — birth fathers, stepfathers, adoptive and foster fathers, grandfathers, and all of you caring men who mentor children and fill the role of absent dads.
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Many influential leadership lessons stem from grandfathers through personal stories and experiences.
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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.
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Moritz Grossmann was one of the forefathers of German watchmaking in Glashütte.
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Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.
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Its story of five girls — all navigating preteenagerdom under the stewardship of their tragically well-meaning white dads — stands firmly on its own legs, even staring down some of its progenitors.
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People grew accustomed to the expectation that each generation would surpass the horizons of their forebears.
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Eight Dukes of Wellington and two very full centuries on from that 1825 procession, on this June 16, the 9th Duke rode, as each of his forbears did and as the future heirs to the ducal title will do, in the lead carriage with the king to open Royal Ascot.
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Though strictly a fathers club, the group, Nieves said, has grown thanks to wives and partners sharing his social media posts with their husbands.
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Golf provides the perfect setup for fathers to bond with their sons and daughters.
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Although our grandmothers kept it on the countertop, experts today recommend storing it in the refrigerator up to three months or freezing it for basically forever.
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In the grandstands in Nkowankowa, few people had to be told the importance of grandmothers.
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“Antecessors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessors. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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