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  • noun Plural form of forerunner.

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Examples

  • She had told them, it was her opinion too, from some numbnesses, which she called the forerunners of death, and from an increased inclination to doze.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • So far the forerunners are a dating site for over/under 30s or a cribbage reseller (29 being the highest score).

    CodingForums.com instaunt 2010

  • It was of no use for us "forerunners" to think of going in advance under these circumstances, as it was impossible to keep on one's feet.

    The South Pole~ At the Pole 2009

  • The sense of the authenticating frame of this new work may shift as well: instead of citing contemporary critics and scholars, one might establish ponts of view, indeed a whole system of relations, between Romantic poetry and twentieth-century poets in their manifestoes and poems (as in Rothenberg's and Joris's brilliant new anthology-with-commentaries of modern experimental world poetry, Poems for the Millennium, with its nineteenth-century "forerunners").

    Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

  • Psychometrists who have studied him say that he has an extremely high psi talent expressed as "forerunners" and "luck" - but what the Senior has to say about them is less polite.

    Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

  • It was of no use for us "forerunners" to think of going in advance under these circumstances, as it was impossible to keep on one's feet.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900

  • It was of no use for us "forerunners" to think of going in advance under these circumstances, as it was impossible to keep on one's feet.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900

  • Developed by Zodiak subsidiaries Neo Network, Mast Media and Grand Zentral, the two apps will be available from the beginning of May as "forerunners" to the format's arrival on TV screens.

    C21Media.net 2010

  • And while the Roosevelt administration never officially promoted eugenics as the Nazis did, its forerunners introduced the doctrine, and the New Deal was born during the heyday of American eugenics.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Two hundred feet northeast of that spot stands the Senate House, where the forerunners of modern republican legislators continued to meet even after being rendered impotent by imperial rule.

    Where the Ancient Past Is Palpably Present Francis X. Rocca 2011

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