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

“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

His mother, Lily, had the olive-toned complexion of her forebears, who came from southern Italy, all the way down in Sicily.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove