foremother

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for foremother
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Noun
  • In March 2025, nearly two decades after the first movie, Seyfried shared some behind-the-scenes details about the movie’s wrap party, including a hilarious moment with her grandmother.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • After Smith’s grandmother and mother died, he was busted with cocaine and did a prison stint in New Jersey.
    John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Gloria Reuben will play Mae Silver, the Silver family matriarch, and Marcus Scribner will play Jonah, the family's youngest member.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 18 July 2025
  • Her photo may have been prominently displayed, along with Aurora matriarch Marie Wilkinson’s, when the Quad County Urban League celebrated its 50th anniversary at Monday’s open house, but Theodia Gillespie was determined to keep the focus of this event on others.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • For the renovation, the museum invited their descendants to consult on a reinstallation in line with their beliefs, and interviewed them for an in-gallery film about their forebears.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • But the film makes too little a point of one giant forebear.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Such cooperative behavior to defend from predators like raptors may have first evolved in our ancestors.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • The fifth-generation Southerner said removing the monument would be a betrayal to the memory of his ancestors and other soldiers.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 13 July 2025

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“Foremother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foremother. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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