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

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

When, therefore, we accomplish an act of reminiscence, we pass through a certain series of precursive movements, until we arrive at a movement on which the one we are in quest of is habitually consequent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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