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precursor

[pri-kur-ser, pree-kur-] / prɪˈkɜr sər, ˈpri kɜr- /
NOUN
something that indicates outcome or event beforehand
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Donatello is the Precursor — the opening act to Michelangelo’s thundering apotheosis.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

Satellites such as the European Sentinel-5 Precursor mission can monitor air pollution at a relatively coarse resolution, with pixels that are 3.5 by 7 kilometres.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2019

More than Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, more than Charles-Francois Daubigny, both of whom also worked in Fontainebleau, Rousseau ranks as perhaps Western art history’s Precursor in Chief.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2016

It would enhance the National Precursor Log Exchange, which tracks pseudoephedrine sales, to issue a stop-sale alert if those felons attempt to buy the medicine.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2016

With a gesture of grave affection, he indicated the Precursor.

From The Mystics A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil




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