forerunner

Example Sentences

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Mr Taylor was the the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper's forerunner, The Manchester Guardian in 1821.

From BBC

A forerunner testing the course then crashed on his run.

From Seattle Times

The march was a forerunner of Brighton Pride, the UK's biggest Pride festival.

From BBC

No Black, brown, Asian or women intellectual forerunners, American or globally, nor any non-Jewish whites.

From Salon

But even as they strive to give a voice to a new generation, the new journals face some of the same challenges as their forerunners.

From New York Times