forebears
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This generation of ETFs isn’t just more expensive and risky than its forebears.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Social media, however, and its cabal of influencers operate along many of the same lines as their reality TV forebears.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Community members sometimes take their children to Maitama, now one of Abuja's most expensive neighbourhoods, to show them where their forebears lived.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The younger Windsors are eschewing the grinding rounds of endless ribbon-cutting their forebears engaged in to try to make fewer, more high-impact interventions heralded to the nation via social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
These are the parents of the new generation, which, by simple inheritance, possesses all the qualities of “toughness” inherent in its forebears.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
