precursory
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Any precursory comparisons to “Hamilton” are understandable, given that both stage musicals focus on an outspoken writer, a pivotal president and a years-long war that determined the country’s future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
"There are some cases where there are dramatic and very distinctive precursory seismic signals that precede a catastrophic landslide, sometimes by as much as days," Highman noted.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2024
These observations suggest perhaps there really are precursory signals for at least some huge quakes.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 17, 2023
Not only does immobile magma stay silent, but the molten mass was already so close to the surface that should the flank have broken apart, it would have immediately erupted without the usual precursory clamor.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
To be invited to this room meant the greatest of honours or a lecture precursory to the severest punishment in the system of the convent.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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