forerunner
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Webb eschews the Wagnerian method of film scoring—dark motifs for the evil characters, bright tunes for the good ones—in favor of fluid, shifting psychological music, a forerunner of Hitchcock’s scores with Bernard Herrmann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Columbia House, the storied direct-to-consumer forerunner that once sold records and CDs through the mail, will stop taking new orders in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
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
The book described a variation oFchess that seemed to be the forerunner of Fischer Random, with the exact same rules.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
“Censorship in art has always existed because artists are always forerunners and touch on different themes,” Rodrigo said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
The church modes, like their Greek forerunners, were ascribed certain moods, and a great deal of theoretical energy was expended over hundreds of years describing their effect and their best possible application.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Power Prefix: fore-
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