forerunner
Example Sentences
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His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
Could this be a forerunner to the Lancashire links staging the men's Open which was last held there 14 years ago?
From BBC
Having Albert Brooks as a best friend likely molded his style too; both were forerunners of a school of comedy that merged a naturalistic, conversational delivery with an absurdist sensibility.
From Salon
So that's what this is, but in reality it's really a jumble of those forerunner films, at least until Pfeiffer's character finally comes into her own.
From BBC
Brought online with the Cuban missile crisis, the system linked remote computers via telephone lines, a forerunner to the internet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
