forerunning

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Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

In such cases the axiom is not the forerunning cause of the action, but its justifying explanation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

Not far off, on an island in the river, one can see people who are watching the fête and who think that they are present at one of the spectacles forerunning doomsday.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge

The tall palms began to sway and rustle in the forerunning breeze.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward