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forerun

[fawr-ruhn, fohr-] / fɔrˈrʌn, foʊr- /








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

From Time Magazine Archive

The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by MacDonald, George

Men of letters forerun science as the morning star the dawn.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

He only wondered what strange experience this blindfold journey was to forerun.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

Does ulceration occur in the stomach or intestines, and threaten to penetrate through them—inflammation will often forerun and provide against the danger—glue the threatened membrane to whatever surface may be next it....

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George