forerunner
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The rule, originally implemented by the forerunner of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, defined pattern day traders as investors who executed four or more “day trades” within five business days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Among the proclamations of the first French republic was an end to slavery in its island possessions—a forerunner of wider abolition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Two years later, though, Jospin won a revenge of sorts when the cocky Chirac called an early general election, expecting his right-wing RPR party -- forerunner of Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans -- to win easily.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
They might not have taken part in F1 before, but they did compete in its forerunner, the European grand prix championship, in the 1930s.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
He was sound asleep before the spring night was quite dark, but excessive fatigue, like excitement, was a forerunner of the nightmares that had plagued him for the past year.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Having Albert Brooks as a best friend likely molded his style too; both were forerunners of a school of comedy that merged a naturalistic, conversational delivery with an absurdist sensibility.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
Wollstonecraft was an advocate of women’s rights and is considered one of the forerunners of feminism.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
In other words, they were the forerunners of the Death Eaters, and indeed some of them became the first Death Eaters after leaving Hogwarts.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Power Prefix: fore-
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