forerun

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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

O, this same thought did but forerun my need; And this same needy man must sell it me.

From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William

The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible and amazing to behold.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de