early forerunner

Frequency: 5.51.8 per million words

Refers to a predecessor that appeared much sooner in time.

forerunnerADJECTIVE + forerunner

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early

Examples (10)

  • The steam turbine was an early forerunner of the modern jet engine.
  • His sketch was an early forerunner of the final logo.
  • That policy served as an early forerunner of today’s data-privacy laws.
  • In many ways, the prototype phone became an early forerunner of smartphones.
  • Their grassroots newsletter proved an early forerunner of independent online media.
  • She is regarded as an early forerunner of modern feminist thought.
  • The algorithm from the 1950s was an early forerunner of machine learning techniques.
  • This festival stands as an early forerunner of the city’s arts scene.
  • Their cooperative experiment functioned as an early forerunner of open-source collaboration.
  • Long before streaming, subscription radio was an early forerunner of on-demand media.