precursor

Making it work was a struggle, but the first neutrino images, captured by an R&D precursor to IceCube, were "the greatest excitement I ever felt about this project," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Office of Strategic Studies—the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency—operating in the European theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Jack explained that there have been several precursor competitions in different countries and this competition takes the top tier of those competitions and brings them together "to really showcase the talent" that there is internationally.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Low currency volatility is often a precursor to a pullback,” observes Watling.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 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

“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

These sedimentary rocks contain petroleum precursors that have spent millions of years deep underground.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 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

What hand, Darwin asked, had guided the creation of such different varieties of finches on those distant volcanic islands or made small armadillos out of giant precursors on the plains of South America?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee