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The forebears
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An ancestor.
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The forebears of the Mehtas settled in the village of Nawankote, about 30 miles northwest of Lahore, commercial & cultural center of the province.
The forebears of two out of every five Americans passed through the island's immigrant-processing centre between 1892 and 1954 among them the grandparents of George Pataki, New York's governor.
The forebears of Blue and White could not convince an Israel drifting right on the back of Russian immigration and Palestinian violence of the security and viability of a post-Netanyahu Israel.
The forebears of these men and women have been raising and cutting cane here for four centuries, back to slave days, and for nearly all of that time, the sentiment of that office motto would have looked absurd: for the small sugar producers of Jamaica, downpours of one kind or another have never stopped, and there has been precious little time for ark-building.
The forebears of this film are numerous: from American Graffiti to Sixteen Candles up to The Hangover.
Next the Ilgers plan to hunt down the forebears of the elder Jacob Ilger.
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The forebear, it's assumed, is Hemingway.
It made her the forebear of the likes of Madonna and Beyoncé and Adele.
Like Abraham, he is supranational, the forebear of both the French and the Germans.
"Best of Enemies" presents the Buckley-Vidal debates as the forebear of modern televised invective-slinging.
The 90s slacker, of course, was the forebear of the 2000s hipster.
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