forerunner
Example Sentences
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Some private credit is packaged into collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs, but they are far smaller and less complex than their subprime forerunners.
"She was the forerunner of Take Two - without her, we could never have made it as we did," Richardson told The Hollywood Reporter.
From BBC
They might not have taken part in F1 before, but they did compete in its forerunner, the European grand prix championship, in the 1930s.
From BBC
The Actor Awards ignored Erivo altogether, also skipping “Wicked: For Good” for the cast award that its forerunner was nominated for last year.
From Los Angeles Times
His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
