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- noun Plural form of
forerunner .
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Examples
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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.
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So far the forerunners are a dating site for over/under 30s or a cribbage reseller (29 being the highest score).
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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.
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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").
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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