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forerun

[fawr-ruhn, fohr-] / fɔrˈrʌn, foʊr- /








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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de

It cannot forerun the limitations of its day, nor anticipate the conquests and common possessions of the future.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

Peace, untaught Groome, My heart's so great that Ide forerun my doome.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

No, no, doubtless he was deceived, and it was but one of those dreams that forerun death!

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre




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