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
He was one of the first dark-skinned Latino players in the majors — a forerunner of Ortiz in that way and in the joy with which he played.
From Washington Post
The next year, he would begin holding presentations that put his sequential photographs — or, technically, artistic reproductions of them — in motion, using a device he called the zoopraxiscope, a forerunner of the film projector.
From New York Times
Likewise, Okparanta’s latest novel, “Harry Sylvester Bird,” is a curious forerunner of sorts, entering, with seemingly little trepidation and a lot of satire, into the unwieldy, tumultuous territory of racial reassignment.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
