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

And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule.

From Agesilaus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

I am of opinion, were all his voluminous centuries of fabulous relations compiled, they would vye in number with the Iliads of many forerunning ages.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

Imaginative forecast of the future is this forerunning quality of behavior rendered available for guidance in the present.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.