forefathers
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“It’s not what our forefathers would have wanted.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026
He was following in the damp footsteps of his forefathers, who started picking wild moss more than 70 years ago.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
“What is he?” murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
"The streets were so crowded that, as our forefathers said, you could hardly move."
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Salomon Brothers had entire years—great years!—in which five proprietary traders, the intellectual forefathers of Howie Hubler, generated more than the firm’s annual profits.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
