precursive

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"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon last year.

From Salon • May 9, 2023

"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2022

The national circumstances precursive to—1st, the English Rebellion.—2nd, the French Revolution.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

Now the amœboid state is a notable phenomenon throughout the monads as precursive of striking change.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

It was as if the precursive tremor of a moral earthquake had been felt, and people, only half awake, did not know whether to seek safety in the house, or outside of it.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady