forerunning
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Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Imaginative forecast of the future is this forerunning quality of behavior rendered available for guidance in the present.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
"We hear and we obey," answered they and turning back to their braves did his bidding and spread themselves about the sides of the valley in the twilight forerunning the dawn.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Not far off, on an island in the river, one can see people who are watching the fête and who think that they are present at one of the spectacles forerunning doomsday.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
