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
Imaginative forecast of the future is this forerunning quality of behavior rendered available for guidance in the present.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
I would lie thus for hours motionless, with lulled mind, until the breeze forerunning the dawn, or the quavering wail of the jackal, recalled the startled thought to the prison bonds of self.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
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
