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
In this forerunning glow of the sunset, the pasture spread like emerald; for the dry touch of summer had not yet come near it.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
Even to the poorest laborer's family comes now something like peace and rest forerunning the intermission of the night.
From Bits about Home Matters by Jackson, Helen Hunt
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 Persky, Serge
