Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessors
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Unlike one of his predecessors, Andre Onana, Lammens is comfortable fielding crosses under his crossbar as attackers race towards him.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026 -
According to defense sources, INS Aridhaman, codenamed S4, is about 1,000 tons heavier than its predecessors, INS Arihant and INS Arighaat.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Because of that, cats’ predatory instincts and behaviors are still very close to their wild ancestors.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2026
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That such a film would go on to break the record for most Oscar nominations — with 16 including best film and best director for Coogler — is a fulfillment of the ancestors’ dreams.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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His grandfathers, fishermen Pietro Tarantino and Gaetano D’Acquisto, immigrated to the area from Porticello, Sicily, in the early 1900s and settled in Little Italy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Sweet Country was about our grandfathers, who were taken as children to become slaves on cattle stations, on ranches.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Feb. 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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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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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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Infiniti’s look called to mind two legendary forebears.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2026
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Another camp speculates that these forebears met human nomads on the trail of big game and started traveling with them, eventually arriving in China via Mongolia through their supporting role as war dogs.—
Andrew Norman Wilson,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy, 57 Robert and Ethel’s last child, Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy was born on December 12, 1968, six months after her fathers assassination.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
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Murphy believes the idea is to arrest fathers and cut off income to the family.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
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On the occasion of Grandmothers' Day in France on Sunday, Rennes got players from both teams to walk onto the pitch accompanied by 22 grandmothers.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Cooking a great meal and setting the table with tapers, vintage glassware, my favorite linens from my mom, and using my grandmothers silver serving pieces is truly my love language.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Antecessors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessors. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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