forerunner
Example Sentences
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Brought online with the Cuban missile crisis, the system linked remote computers via telephone lines, a forerunner to the internet.
His movie became the forerunner of “Silicon Valley,” which captured the tech industry’s evolution away from cubicle austerity into open floor plans, beanbag furniture and the idea of work becoming a second home.
From Salon
Instead of being able to tout her country as a forerunner in research or practice, the anti-science resurgence has forced Botha to ask whether it is even safe to attend American conferences.
From Salon
Where was the genius behind such classic sketches as “ball champions,” an early forerunner of “How To With John Wilson” and “I Think You Should Leave”?
From New York Times
This technique, a forerunner to the new LLM compression approach, was published in 2023.
From Science Daily
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