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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foremother
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My family's story reveals the scale of the coming storm—my father battles Alzheimer's, my uncle succumbed to Parkinson's, and my grandmother to Lewy body dementia.—
Shahriar Minokadeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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So it’s become commonplace to see guys sporting a stack of bracelets or even their grandmother’s strand of pearls or a diamond tennis bracelet.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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For seven years, Bishop played the affluent, unyielding and ever-sharp family matriarch Emily Gilmore.—
Erin Spencer Sairam,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The family was celebrating matriarch Terri's birthday by releasing five sea turtles back into the wild, according to Bindi's Instagram.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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As summer temperatures continue to rise, perhaps Americans will start to look back with envy on the ways our forebears beat the heat.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Like his Condé forebears, Graydon had learned to weaponize exclusivity.—
Michael Grynbaum,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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That was how your ancestors lived for almost all of human history.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Our ancestors hunted and gathered for meat and berries and embarked on treacherous overseas journeys for the promise of fertile land.—
Maggie Anders,
Oc Register,
29 July 2025
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“Foremother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foremother. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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