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
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
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
It washed over us and I heard more than a few people dry-heaving and vomiting, including some guards on their forebears.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
