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
Years out of mind the adherents of the leading political parties had mingled sociably before a non-partisan bulletin board in the courthouse, much as hostile camps fraternize in the truce forerunning peace.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
In such cases the axiom is not the forerunning cause of the action, but its justifying explanation.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
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 Helen Hunt Jackson
