forerunner
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Two years later, though, Jospin won a revenge of sorts when the cocky Chirac called an early general election, expecting his right-wing RPR party -- forerunner of Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans -- to win easily.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026
"She was the forerunner of Take Two - without her, we could never have made it as we did," Richardson told The Hollywood Reporter.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Brought online with the Cuban missile crisis, the system linked remote computers via telephone lines, a forerunner to the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
A few years later, McKean made an appearance on “Mr. Show,” as a condescending law professor, a forerunner of Chuck McGill, while Odenkirk’s character on that episode has a touch of Jimmy McGill’s DNA.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
This could have been the forerunner of the kind of chronometer that would have been accurate and dependable enough to determine longitude at sea, and Hooke claimed to have worked out how to achieve this.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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Power Prefix: fore-
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: fore-
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