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
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
Part of it may be a simple reluctance to credit that the culture of liberty held so essential to the identity of the United States could have so many different forebears.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
