"our forebears" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to ancestors or predecessors, typically from many generations ago. Example: "Our forebears immigrated to this country in search of a better life."
Our forebears are buried in that cemetery".
Our forebears faced much worse.
That's what drew our forebears here.
Our forebears knew something that we don't.
We live better and longer than our forebears.
"Our forebears never lost historical ties," the activist says.
I felt that great leap of empathy that turns footage of unknown warriors into men who were our forebears and whom our forebears loved.
the tantalizing evidence of molars and jaws that mostly comprise the earliest history of our forebears.
It already entered the bloodstreams of our forebears, and they passed it on to us".
How, as their brains got bigger, did our forebears keep them running?
The university and its students should prefer improving today's orthodoxies to imposing them on our forebears".
