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
With this new project we can learn a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears, about how they lived and what their worlds looked like.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“Lido Shuffle” appears to have two musical forebears: Fats Domino’s shuffle rhythms and Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
