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

A timid hint of coolness, forerunning the dawn, rode up on the breeze.

From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph

It would be interesting, if our present purposes only warranted the undertaking, to trace the forerunning conditions of a period of scientific endeavour.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.

He welcomed the mere accident of their presence as though it possessed a forerunning intelligence, as though it were the annunciation of his approaching change of life.

From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane