forerunner
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The ADP report is a forerunner to the official U.S. employment report on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Columbia House, the storied direct-to-consumer forerunner that once sold records and CDs through the mail, will stop taking new orders in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The rule, originally implemented by the forerunner of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, defined pattern day traders as investors who executed four or more “day trades” within five business days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
She made the leap to the small screen in the 1950s on Children's Television Club, a forerunner of Blue Peter.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The book described a variation oFchess that seemed to be the forerunner of Fischer Random, with the exact same rules.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Some private credit is packaged into collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, but they are far smaller and less complex than their subprime forerunners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
The flames would then be spread across the country for about 1,200 forerunners to relay.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
“As soon as this passed, then you have the start of what are the forerunners of modern airlines,” said Randall, like “American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
In other words, they were the forerunners of the Death Eaters, and indeed some of them became the first Death Eaters after leaving Hogwarts.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Power Prefix: fore-
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