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

Even as Andromeda spoke, the sea was broken by the track of a creature that cleft the water as does the forerunning gale of a mighty storm.

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

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