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Recent Examples of forebearer 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 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 Mike Brown said the digital driver license is the forebearer of discriminating against the unvaccinated. Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022 If successful, The Mayflower Autonomous Ship, named in honor of its famous nautical forebearer and known as MAS for short, will be the first such trans-Atlantic voyage by an autonomous vessel. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2021 Our generation inherited a healthy ocean from our forebearers. CNN, 24 Sep. 2019 Many of our forebearers, including my great-grandfather, were undocumented immigrants, no different from Central American migrants today. Aaron Freedman, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for forebearer
Noun
  • Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In Rea Rasmussen's case, the process took 18 months and required building genealogical connections back to ancestors born in the 1780s.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 1943, when the Mississippi tore away from its banks and charted a fierce and muddy course across America’s central farmlands, Gerard’s grandfather, Harold Gerard, had already fled the waters once.
    Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The film will follow a young boy sent to spend a summer with his charismatic and wildly eccentric grandfather on a remote Welsh farm.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Chilean-American actress and singer did not reveal the age of her child or the identity of the father.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His father taught him that a husband provides, a wife takes care of children.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Forebearer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forebearer. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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