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How to pronounce forerunner in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor
Type of indicant, indication
Type Words
Synonyms precursor
Type of individual, someone, person, soul, somebody, mortal
Has types predecessor
Type Words
Synonyms antecedent
Type of temporal relation

Examples of forerunner

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When the Irish pound left in 1979, it did so to join the forerunner of the euro.
From the guardian.co.uk
This ecclesiastical commission being the forerunner of the Church Commissioners.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It would, to quote Barton's great forerunner Vinnie Jones, have been emotional.
From the people.co.uk
Osteopenia is a thinning of the bones that can be a forerunner to osteoporosis.
From the bbc.co.uk
Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi interpretation is considered its forerunner.
From the washingtontimes.com
The resulting machine served as the forerunner to today's multitrack recorders.
From the dailyherald.com
And Cottrell Boyce has also kept faith with this side of his singular forerunner.
From the independent.co.uk
This became the forerunner of the designs that followed from other manufacturers.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The reform kitchen was a forerunner to the later unit kitchen and fitted kitchen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Precursor: a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
  • Harbinger: something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
  • Antecedent: anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
  • The third album by the Eastern-Canadian Celtic band The Cottars.
  • Forerunner is a fictional character published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Countdown #46 (August 2007), and was created by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Jesus Saiz.
  • The Halo franchise takes place in a fictional science-fiction universe, where there are four major factions players encounter or control. Halos story has 26th century humanity, led by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), caught in a war with a genocidal alien coalition known as the Covenant. ...
  • The Forerunner was a monthly magazine produced by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (best known as the writer of The Yellow Wallpaper), from 1909 through 1916. During that time, she wrote all of every issue -- editorials, critical articles, book reviews, essays, poems, stories, and six serialized novels.
  • Xianxingzhe is the first bipedal humanoid robot in China, created in 2000 by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, Hunan. The robot, standing 140 cm tall and weighing 20 kg, walks at a pace of two steps per second. ...
  • In philately, a forerunner is a postage stamp used before a region or territory issued stamps of its own. The term also includes stamps of the political predecessors of a country. ...