precursor
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Office of Strategic Services—the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency—recruited him to lead an American spy network in Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Another factor could be cabinet resignations, which as we saw with the previous Conservative government, can be a precursor to a prime minister being forced to stand down.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Department of Homeland Security, a precursor to filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the agency.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Spang solved this by processing the liquid precursor of the hydrogel in a centrifuge.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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