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
From the Moment these previous, these forerunning Complaints are perceived, they allow themselves to eat nothing but gross Meat, Eggs, or strong Meat-Soups.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
I am of opinion, were all his voluminous centuries of fabulous relations compiled, they would vye in number with the Iliads of many forerunning ages.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
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