forerunner

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At the Nuremberg trials in 1945, seen as the forerunners of international war crimes tribunals, Nazi Germany’s political, military, and economic leaders were prosecuted.

From Reuters

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

From BBC

From this crucible of tectonic, climatic and oceanic change, the forerunners of modern baleen whales emerged.

From Scientific American

The researchers had thought any ichthyosaur living 250 million years ago would have been a primitive form, not far removed from its land-living forerunners.

From Reuters

A forerunner testing the course then crashed on his run.

From Seattle Times