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He was an early forbearer of what today we might call embodied cognition, that the movement of the body, our activities in the world are part of the ways we think.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

While few remember it today, Kobaly’s vision of an activist network of asexual-identified people would prove to be especially prescient—the intellectual forbearer, perhaps, to modern groups like AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2020

Honoring Mr. Taylor’s own forbearer, the company will perform a Martha Graham work — “Diversion of Angels” — for the first time.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016

The possible value of the tree lies in opportunities it offers in being the forbearer of more worthwhile progeny.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association