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Recent Examples of forefather Instead, Zinke told Outside that his vision for public land management comes from the forefathers of the U.S. National Parks. Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 May 2025 Transportation secretaries normally have little to do with tariff policy, but Duffy has presented himself as one of the intellectual forefathers of Trump’s current trade agenda. Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 19 May 2025 The triumphs of his forefathers, the great king Akbar and Shah Jahan, have been written out of history textbooks, Rezavi said, or not taught in schools. Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025 Boland is one of them, as well as a forefather of the Red Dirt genre. Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forefather
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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
Noun
  • This is all thanks to Jane Blaffer Owen an oil heiress from Houston (her father was one of the founders of a company that’s now ExxonMobil and her grandfather established the company that ultimately became Texaco), whose husband, Kenneth Dale Owen was a descendent of New Harmony’s founders.
    Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Just across the river from Wilmington, on the other side of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Scott’s Auto repair shop founded by his grandfather has been a mainstay in Carneys Point, N.J., since 1978.
    Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • My father never got to speak for himself because his health robbed him of that chance.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 20 July 2025
  • Over the two decades that Al-Waleed was in a coma, his father opted to keep him on life support and often shared social media footage of himself and other family members praying for his son's recovery.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 20 July 2025

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“Forefather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forefather. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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