forerunner
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Webb eschews the Wagnerian method of film scoring—dark motifs for the evil characters, bright tunes for the good ones—in favor of fluid, shifting psychological music, a forerunner of Hitchcock’s scores with Bernard Herrmann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The three partners founded Hugging Face in New York, where Delangue was already living, with the aim of building a conversational AI interface -- a sort of forerunner of ChatGPT -- aimed primarily at teenagers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Columbia House, the storied direct-to-consumer forerunner that once sold records and CDs through the mail, will stop taking new orders in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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 ● Feb. 27, 2026
But perhaps my aunt, my forerunner, caught in a slow life, let dreams grow and fade and after some months or years went toward what persisted.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and other veterans of Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneering developer of what were known as integrated circuits, the forerunners of modern chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
For our fruit-loving forerunners a few million years before we figured out cooking, a little squish was an easy cue that our food was ready to eat.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024
The first run was delayed for 12 minutes after one of the forerunners, who test the course before the first racer starts, crashed and needed medical attention for an apparent right arm injury.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Power Prefix: fore-
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: fore-
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