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

They have always found compromises even in difficult terrain since they co-founded, with four other countries, the forerunner of the EU in 1957.

From Seattle Times

Its forerunner, Make America Great Again, Again!, was essentially disbanded, partially because of Trump’s frustration with the money some of his advisers were making from it.

From Washington Post

This is often the forerunner of what happens in the winter here.

From BBC