as in precursor
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In addition, neighborhoods would no longer be required — as a precursor to meters — to test out two-hour and three-hour parking zones enforced by chalking tires instead of meters.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025 -
Directed by Arthur Penn, who brought a bold visual style, frank sexuality and graphic, balletic violence to a Hollywood dominated by optimistic pictures, this countercultural romance served as a precursor to the generational tension and mistrust in authority that was quietly pervading the country.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The most obvious forerunner is Video Quartet, a 2002 work in which four screens show four videos simultaneously, each constructed from myriad film clips, all synced in a way that interlaces their soundtracks into a musical composition.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Solution #4: Charles Schwab Schwab, a forerunner in discount brokerage, has a bank subsidiary that can do what banks usually do.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer’s financial performance could be a foretaste of how U.S. chip export controls to China affect tech companies.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2024
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Others chalk up social trends such as learning to play the harmonica or wearing more brown clothing as forewarnings of a financial downturn on the horizon.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
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But a little forewarning: If Denver loses this weekend and the Wild sign Buium soon after, don’t expect Buium to immediately get games if the Wild’s playoff spot or positioning isn’t locked and their blue line is healthy.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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Thank you dear Lord for my forever baby, my angel Aidan.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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From philanthropy to angel investing, wealthy women are using their money to do good and proving that financial power in the right hands changes everything.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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The downward trend in proficiency, which preceded the pandemic, is a harbinger of the decline of America’s global competitiveness and economic power in the decades ahead.—
Sari Factor,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s return was widely seen as a harbinger of a second populist wave that would oust establishment figures all over the west.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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Adam Green, co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, an influential progressive group, said the venue and messenger doesn't matter as much as having a forceful and consistent governing theme.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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After weeks of the Mercury retrograde mayhem — miscommunications, misunderstandings and technical glitches — the messenger planet stations direct on April 7.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Through the front doors — which boast double leather horse collars — the entryway features an equine sculpture placed on a piece that Churchill Downs outrider Lee Lockwood once had atop his horse.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
1 May 2024
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Because Lezcano had help from an outrider to cross the finish line, the last-place run did not technically count as a finish in the race.—
Praveena Somasundaram,
Washington Post,
23 Aug. 2023
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