Synonyms for Ancestors
an·ces·tors

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1. ancestorsnoun

   Synonyms:
   forefathers

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancestors":

   forefathers, forebears, ancestry, great-grandfathers, predecessors, progenitors, ascendants, forbears, ancestries, fathers, grandfathers

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1. Alyssa Rubin:

   Secretary Mayorkas, himself a refugee and the child of Holocaust survivors, has now joined the long list of U.S. officials enforcing racist policies that turn away desperate refugees and migrants, sending many of them back to their deaths, we are here today in honor of our ancestors who died because they were turned away from the U.S. by policies just like these.

2. Kelly Rowland:

   I feel like we've been through so much. Our ancestors have been through so much. So we have to get through something like this.

3. Diana Van:

   I do not believe that this is going to happen, one hundred years have passed. I went to my ancestors' land, and I saw those Armenian lands full of Kurdish people, who have five to 16 children per family, and I saw that it's not Anatolia. It's not my homeland that I had in my imagination.

4. Steve Mercer:

   People who submit DNA for ancestors testing are unwittingly becoming genetic informants on their innocent family.

5. Andrea Hunter:

   It is our ancestors who are buried there in that cave, it is our ancestors that created the images that are on the walls and conducted the rituals that took place. It is absolutely the most sacred site that we have. And it rightfully should be in our ownership.