Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessors
Noun
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The Crew-12 mission was bumped up a few days so the astronauts can get to an understaffed space station after the mission's Crew-11 predecessors were medically evacuated in mid-January.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Pritzkau has been on the camp scene for years, learning from his predecessors in the early stages.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Connie Martin always knew who her ancestors were growing up.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Some of those ancestors left Africa to explore Europe.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Sweet Country was about our grandfathers, who were taken as children to become slaves on cattle stations, on ranches.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Feb. 2026
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My grandfathers had both been miners whose early deaths owed much to their working lives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Yet, without ceasing, another generation of Puerto Ricans pick up the mantle to chant in the streets and fight for their country, out of love for their forefathers and foremothers.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to get away from a tyrannical monarch and indifferent legislators, not to create our own homegrown version of it.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The key to calculating the amount of energy blasted out is realizing that the mass of a merger’s resulting black hole is not simply the sum of its progenitors.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Somewhere in Africa there is a city, town, or village where Henry Fordham’s progenitors lived and died for hundreds or thousands of years, where my distant relatives walk the streets today.—
Eugene Robinson,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But beneath the surface, new technology promises Artemis astronauts mobility on the moon that their Apollo-era forebears could only dream about.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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However, teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And again the morgues and graveyards of Iran received fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.—
Azar Nafisi,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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Tisch and John Mara have functioned as the Giants franchise’s controlling owners for their respective families since the passing of their fathers, Bob Tisch and Wellington Mara, in 2005.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Our grandmothers were queens of the freezer, along with a zillion other ways to avoid food waste.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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That looks like grandmothers delivering hot meals to those on the frontlines.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Antecessors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessors. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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