antecessors

noun

plural of antecessor
as in predecessors

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  1. predecessors
  2. ancestors
  3. grandfathers
  4. forefathers
  5. progenitors
  6. forebears
  7. fathers
  8. grandmothers
Noun
  • Given the Hague-worthy crimes of some of her predecessors, Hunter seems keen to get out ahead of the jokes.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Rochlin, who used to work in mosquito control, pointed out that his predecessors in New York were chiefly concerned with malaria.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of predecessors
Noun
  • Travelers who’d rather be outside should drive south on Snake River Road to Buffalo Eddy, where hundreds of petroglyphs etched into the basalt by Nez Perce ancestors thousands of years ago remain visible from the riverbank.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • In Tenet, warriors from the future punish the present because their world is ravaged by climate change caused by us, their ancestors.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026
Definition of ancestors
Noun
  • Sorrell, whose grandfathers both played in the majors, slugged 23 home runs and 20 doubles in 56 games while drawing 33 walks and striking out 61 times.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
  • Growing up in Syracuse, Shattuck watched his great-grandfather and both grandfathers getting their suits made at Frank and Carl Cesta’s shop.
    — jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Definition of grandfathers
Noun
  • But the truth is that our forefathers were sufficiently individualistic to be iconoclastic.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of forefathers
Noun
  • 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.
    — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Definition of progenitors
Noun
  • Some of his forebears emigrated before the genocide; others barely got out.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • Over the years, a number of prominent mathematicians tried to prove this guess of their forebears.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 14 July 2026
Definition of forebears
Noun
  • The babies looked so similar that one of the fathers in the group, who happened to be a microbiology professor, offered to swab their cheeks, take a sample and run a DNA test.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
  • Although their fathers have collaborated on multiple projects, including the movies Boomerang (1992) and Life (1999), Jasmine revealed to InTouch Weekly in 2022 that she was introduced to Eric by her uncle.
    — Ayana Herndon, InStyle, 25 July 2026
Definition of fathers
Noun
  • McCarthy leads a weekly women’s rucking group in Florida that includes new mothers, single women, mothers with older children and grandmothers.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Both of her grandmothers also spoke during the sentencing hearing.
    — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of grandmothers
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