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

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

She also started incorporating images of other inspiring women, including her maternal forebears and the Cuban American sculptor Ana Mendieta.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

But she knew that her father came from Quaker stock, and that he was proud of his forebears.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield