forerunner
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You might think of this novel as a rebuttal or counterpoint to its forerunner, a book that replaces roseate campus fantasy with spikier societal conflicts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Instead, a captain visited from Bletchley Park, the then-secret headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School, the forerunner of GCHQ, and the base for Allied codebreaking.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The three partners founded Hugging Face in New York, where Delangue was already living, with the aim of building a conversational AI interface -- a sort of forerunner of ChatGPT -- aimed primarily at teenagers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Burnham has long been involved with fans' groups and he founded Supporters Direct, one of the forerunner organisations to the Football Supporters' Association.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
But don’t run away with the idea that Uraniborg was entirely the forerunner of a modern observatory and technological complex.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Having Albert Brooks as a best friend likely molded his style too; both were forerunners of a school of comedy that merged a naturalistic, conversational delivery with an absurdist sensibility.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and other veterans of Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneering developer of what were known as integrated circuits, the forerunners of modern chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
“As soon as this passed, then you have the start of what are the forerunners of modern airlines,” said Randall, like “American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
In other words, they were the forerunners of the Death Eaters, and indeed some of them became the first Death Eaters after leaving Hogwarts.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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