precursor
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Victoria Dittmar, a researcher at InSight Crime, a think tank, has spent years investigating the flow of precursor chemicals into Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Fat cells originate from precursor cells known as progenitor cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
This field is considered the next frontier in practical quantum technology and the precursor to a quantum internet, akin to the classical networks that allow computers to communicate today.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
A claim is typically a precursor to a lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
It merged in 1994 with another company in a 2.4-billion-dollar deal, a precursor to the dot-com boom.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
“The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” Alsup noted in his earlier judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
They are now looking to expand their own production of guncotton, and assessing alternative natural precursors to make it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The White House document claimed they had discussed Chinese investment in U.S. industries, purchases of U.S. oil and agricultural products, and ending the flow of fentanyl precursors into the U.S.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
This is a problem the EU and its precursors have been thinking about for a long time.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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