- plural of precursor.
precursors
Example Sentences
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Directed by Henry Winkler and co-starring Lee Majors as Mountain Dan, it may be one of the earliest precursors to the Hallmark holiday-style movies.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” Alsup noted in his earlier judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
They are now looking to expand their own production of guncotton, and assessing alternative natural precursors to make it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
These cells serve as precursors that can mature into fully developed fat cells.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
