precursive

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"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon last year.

From Salon • May 9, 2023

"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2022

Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

It was as if the precursive tremor of a moral earthquake had been felt, and people, only half awake, did not know whether to seek safety in the house, or outside of it.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

This precursive solitude had tinged his very life-blood, and woven itself into the secret tissues of his brain.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons