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
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
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
McKinnon, who is Black, offers a brief history of Black people in the Marine Corps as lived by his forebears.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Lord Godric’s forebears had been pirate kings until the Starks came down on them with fire and sword.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
