precursor

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Musk, OpenAI’s then principal financial supporter, had asked Brockman and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to make a spreadsheet listing every employee and what important contribution they had made—a classically Muskian precursor to staff cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

One Battle is the clear frontrunner after a string of big wins at precursor ceremonies, and its director Paul Thomas Anderson is widely predicted to finally win his first Oscar for directing.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

“Sinners” landed the cast prize at the Actor Awards, which is not a reliable precursor but did give Coogler’s movie a big moment in front of an audience while Oscar ballots were out.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Crypto firms want to pay the yields, which some of them call “rewards,” to encourage more consumers to buy the tokens, which are often a precursor to investing in other digital assets.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

It merged in 1994 with another company in a 2.4-billion-dollar deal, a precursor to the dot-com boom.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel