precursory
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Any precursory comparisons to “Hamilton” are understandable, given that both stage musicals focus on an outspoken writer, a pivotal president and a years-long war that determined the country’s future.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025
"There are some cases where there are dramatic and very distinctive precursory seismic signals that precede a catastrophic landslide, sometimes by as much as days," Highman noted.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
“It doesn’t give you a precursory, predictive ability because it’s a statement of how you’ve summed it rather than what’s going on at a particular earthquake,” she adds.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
And as far as they could tell, no precursory signals were detected before the 2021 outburst.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022
Immediately after the ministerial success in the general elections of 1846, this precursory indication of storms appeared on the horizon.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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