ANTECESSORS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

antecessors

noun

plural of antecessor

as in predecessors

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Noun

But the arrangement rejects the conflict of interest protections that his recent predecessors in office had instituted.

— Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Unlike his predecessors, Rider works from the Paris studio full time.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of predecessors

Noun

The changes would have affected the environments in which life developed and evolved, from the age of the dinosaurs through to some of our oldest primate ancestors.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
In his view, Flagg Mountain’s fire-scarred stumps corroborate what his community already knew—that their ancestors used fire for centuries—and reinforce their sense of responsibility to care for the land.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of ancestors

Noun

His grandfathers are former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and Tom Curtis, an All-America defensive back for the Wolverines, and his brother is Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Nearly a century after his great-grandfathers played college football, USC freshman defensive lineman Luke Wafle is emerging as a generational talent.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of grandfathers

Noun

But the truth is that our forefathers were sufficiently individualistic to be iconoclastic.

— Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success.

— Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

Definition of forefathers

Noun

Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.

— Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Its story of five girls — all navigating preteenagerdom under the stewardship of their tragically well-meaning white dads — stands firmly on its own legs, even staring down some of its progenitors.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026

Definition of progenitors

Noun

Their forebears at the Academy snubbed canonical documentaries like The Thin Blue Line, Roger & Me, and Hoop Dreams.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
First our forebears began to imitate peers learned behaviors, creating group norms that supported coordinated work.

— Michael Morris, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of forebears

Noun

Those girls in the hothouses maintained by fathers and uncles certainly would not spare a single thought for Percherette.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
Nearly every player on the team is a dad, with seemingly a few players becoming first-time fathers each of the past few seasons.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of fathers

Noun

For Salvadoran-American food historian Karla Tatiana Vasquez, what started as a quest to document the recipes of her past transformed into the preservation of history from the spoken accounts of grandmothers, mothers and friends.

— Candy Hom, AJC.com, 4 Oct. 2026
The 57-year-old from Lockport grew up around baking, with her mother and grandmothers involved in the kitchen.

— Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

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