forerunner

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Mr Taylor was the the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper's forerunner, The Manchester Guardian in 1821.

From BBC

A forerunner testing the course then crashed on his run.

From Seattle Times

It hosted boxing, soccer and hockey in its first decade, and the forerunners of the NFL’s Washington Commanders and New England Patriots both called the ballpark home at one point.

From Seattle Times

Artists and scholars dispute whether Vermeer may have made use of a 'camera obscura', a forerunner of the modern photocamera.

From Reuters

The film, set in the years just before the Vietnam War, was a forerunner to a nostalgia boom for the 1950s and early 1960s.

From Washington Post