precursor
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It’s going to be a precursor to what I hope is going to be happening during the Olympics, and to show that we can do it at scale,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Newton notes the Russell 3000 McClellan Summation Index — a breadth indicator — is sitting near its June peak and while, drifting sideways, hasn’t nosedived, which is often the precursor to a bigger downturn.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "the patterns were there, he was flying those red flags", and said there were "precursor offences" for which he could have stopped by police.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
It isn’t the first, and it knows it, beginning with what feels like a reference to its more brilliant precursor, Brian De Palma’s “Blow Out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Directed by Henry Winkler and co-starring Lee Majors as Mountain Dan, it may be one of the earliest precursors to the Hallmark holiday-style movies.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Next, the Laestrygonians are clearly classical precursors of Norway’s Viking heirs, terrifying giants who, despite knocking out most of the Achaean team, are unable to secure victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” Alsup noted in his earlier judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The White House document claimed they had discussed Chinese investment in U.S. industries, purchases of U.S. oil and agricultural products, and ending the flow of fentanyl precursors into the U.S.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
They thought of them as the precursors of men and they defined them far more clearly as individuals than they had earth and heaven.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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