forerunner
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The three partners founded Hugging Face in New York, where Delangue was already living, with the aim of building a conversational AI interface -- a sort of forerunner of ChatGPT -- aimed primarily at teenagers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Together they launched a website in 2013 that would become the forerunner to the present book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
And in a section about advances in structural engineering, the museum presents one of its signature possessions—the 1878, 9-foot-high forerunner model of the Statue of Liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
They might not have taken part in F1 before, but they did compete in its forerunner, the European grand prix championship, in the 1930s.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
This was the forerunner of the Royal Society, and it was through Katherine that Robert began to make the acquaintance of these men on his visits to London.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
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 ● Dec. 21, 2025
“Censorship in art has always existed because artists are always forerunners and touch on different themes,” Rodrigo said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
The church modes, like their Greek forerunners, were ascribed certain moods, and a great deal of theoretical energy was expended over hundreds of years describing their effect and their best possible application.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Power Prefix: fore-
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