precursors

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Directed by Andy Serkis, “Let There Be Carnage” drew a middling 59% critic score on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes — up significantly from its widely panned precursor’s 32% showing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2021

In the Georgia version, its precursor’s thrice-repeated lyric, “Glory, glory Hallelujah,” is replaced with, “Glory, Glory to old Georgia,” and the line “His truth is marching on” is supplanted by “G-E-O-R-G-I-A.”

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2018

To say that Collado followed Lebrija in the general structure of his description is not to imply that he fell heir to all of his precursor's virtues.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.

As mighty men, who liv'd in days of yore, Were figur'd out some centuries before; So you with them in equal honour join, Your great precursor's name was Jack Burgoyne!

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

How terrible it would be to see these precious volumes thrown into the sea, like my unhappy precursor's MS. of Homer!

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert