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Recent Examples of foremother
The show is partly Star's love letter to the glamour of Paris (a city he's been enamored with since his teens), with a protagonist who embodies both the winningest and messiest instincts of her foremother, Carrie Bradshaw.
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Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
No one emerges at the end of the book as entirely good or bad (save, perhaps, for Busia, Regan’s culinary foremother).
—Makana Eyre, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
In a year when avant-pop stars such as Rosalía thrilled with volcanic vocals and cybernetic beats, their foremother dug in yet-stranger soil.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
Taking inspiration from her literary foremother Zora Neale Hurston, Walker centers southern Black women, who are all too often misrepresented in American culture.
—Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
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Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
No one emerges at the end of the book as entirely good or bad (save, perhaps, for Busia, Regan’s culinary foremother).
—Makana Eyre, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
In a year when avant-pop stars such as Rosalía thrilled with volcanic vocals and cybernetic beats, their foremother dug in yet-stranger soil.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
Taking inspiration from her literary foremother Zora Neale Hurston, Walker centers southern Black women, who are all too often misrepresented in American culture.
—Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foremother
Noun
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Most people would be appalled if someone threw a party in the place where their great great grandmother was imprisoned and abused.—
Maurice Carlos Ruffin,
Time,
21 May 2025
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Before the big day, Prince Harry had warned Lubomirski that his grandmother and grandfather, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, had a low tolerance for lengthy photo sessions.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
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These are our matriarchs – the most prominent women in the Book of Genesis.—
Mark Gerson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2025
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All bridesmaids, perhaps? Kris Jenner The matriarch and manager of the Kardashian family (which includes Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner).—
Vogue,
Vogue,
16 May 2025
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If Bill Rusher was a closeted gay man, he was tucked back there in the far corner, next to his grandfather’s golf clubs.—
Neal B. Freeman,
National Review,
13 May 2025
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My grandfather ran a hotel in Sorrento, where I was born.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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In the tradition of jam forefathers like the Dead and the Allman Brothers Band, Goose often soar during the concluding portions of their songs, ramping up the increasingly emphatic and euphoric solos.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2025
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The statistics were grim—twenty-first-century males were, relative to their forefathers and their female contemporaries, much more likely to fall behind in school, drop out of college, languish in the workforce, or die by overdose or suicide.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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At her Hall of Fame induction two years ago, Crow was celebrated on both ends: by Stevie Nicks, her own hero and forebear, and Olivia Rodrigo, a 21st-century acolyte.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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Assimilation would have made life easier for French-speaking Babs and her forebears, but fitting in wasn’t for them.—
Lisa Henricksson,
Air Mail,
29 Mar. 2025
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Porter County Board of Commissioners President Jim Biggs noted his ancestors were among the first white settlers in the county in 1835, at a settlement a few hundred feet from the site.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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Moringa oleifera is native to Indian subcontinent, particularly the Himalayan foothills, while another species, Moringa stenopetala, grows in the Horn of Africa: southern Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and even Somalia, where Elba’s ancestors are from.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
15 May 2025
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New York is usually considered the antithesis of sprawl and Los Angeles the progenitor of it.—
Conor Dougherty,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, most Cretaceous avian progenitors appear more birdlike, with short tails ending in a compound bone called a pygostyle.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Foremother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foremother. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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