forerunner
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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
Together they launched a website in 2013 that would become the forerunner to the present book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Tim Burton’s stylish 1989 movie, “Batman,” wasn’t only a forerunner of the superhero films to come in the following decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
More nuanced and more revealing is Wills’s other remark—that “Everett’s classicism was as much the forerunner of Lincoln’s talk as its foil or contrast.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
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
The flames would then be spread across the country for about 1,200 forerunners to relay.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
“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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Power Prefix: fore-
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