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
"The public may be familiar with the Princess Mary Christmas tins of World War One, but this Boer War issue was the precursor," he said.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Spang solved this by processing the liquid precursor of the hydrogel in a centrifuge.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Another molecule containing nitrogen "is a precursor to how DNA is eventually built," she added.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
“Anger. Very nice. Useless to me, alas, but as it is so often a precursor to sorrow, I confess that I do like it.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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