forebears
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On view at LACMA, David Hockney’s ‘Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos’ travels country roads, recording the scene in ways that echo artistic forebears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
This generation of ETFs isn’t just more expensive and risky than its forebears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The state was home to some of the forebears of Hindu nationalism, including the first president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the BJP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site, which archaeologists hope could reveal "a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Part of it may be a simple reluctance to credit that the culture of liberty held so essential to the identity of the United States could have so many different forebears.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
