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

A: We learned a lot from companies that had been working with models like this prior to us, like IBM, which was one of the forerunners.

From Reuters

The recent documentary comedy examples stretch the canvas created by their forerunners, offering a wider emotional landscape and more complicated ideas.

From New York Times

Dry goods stores, the forerunner of department stores, flourished too.

From Los Angeles Times