forerunner

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Mr Taylor was the the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper's forerunner, The Manchester Guardian in 1821.

From BBC

A forerunner testing the course then crashed on his run.

From Seattle Times

Remember, even though “Beavis and Butt-Head” and “The Simpsons” were definitely the forerunners to everything that we did, that also narrowed what people thought would work.

From Los Angeles Times

He was one of the first dark-skinned Latino players in the majors — a forerunner of Ortiz in that way and in the joy with which he played.

From Washington Post

The next year, he would begin holding presentations that put his sequential photographs — or, technically, artistic reproductions of them — in motion, using a device he called the zoopraxiscope, a forerunner of the film projector.

From New York Times