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precursors

NOUN

something that indicates outcome or event beforehand

Synonyms

STRONGEST

forerunner harbinger

STRONG

herald messenger outrider usher vanguard

NOUN

something that precedes another

Synonyms

STRONGEST

forerunner prototype

STRONG

ancestor antecedent forebear original originator parent pioneer predecessor

WEAK

antecessor foregoer

Antonyms

STRONG

derivative descendant

Example Sentences

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It is part of a fleet of Iranian state-controlled vessels that have been accused of shipping rocket-fuel precursors to China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

This is a problem the EU and its precursors have been thinking about for a long time.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

And what about jet fuels and fertiliser precursors also shut in to the Gulf?

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

What do you think looking for precursors like this does for our historical understanding of fascism?

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond