forerunning

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Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

A timid hint of coolness, forerunning the dawn, rode up on the breeze.

From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph

He welcomed the mere accident of their presence as though it possessed a forerunning intelligence, as though it were the annunciation of his approaching change of life.

From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane

In such cases the axiom is not the forerunning cause of the action, but its justifying explanation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various