precursor
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7.2
- noun
- /prɪˈkɜrsər/
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precursor
- For our populace, catastrophes like these are always the precursors of important events.
- necessary precursor
- important precursor
- developmental precursor
We're getting more consolidation patterns and that's a precursor to a downtrend.
- We're getting more consolidation patterns and that's a precursor to a downtrend.
- So Dianetics is, you could say, the precursor to Scientology, right?
- If anybody's interested, they should Google earthquake precursor inspire.
- But what we found is that insufficient sleep is a precursor to suicide.
- And so that's what that was Blue Operations LLC, which was the precursor to, to Blue Origin.
- That was the precursor to the Internet, a very big idea.
- Seismologists can't always find precursors, but they have made progress in identifying some of them.
- And that being a precursor to what your why is.
- This would be a precursor sort of setting the table.
- So just like to give you a little precursor on to what that all is.
- But this is a, it's a vlog precursor, you know, in a lot of ways.
- I always thought that dream, that what dream was a precursor, was fishy.
- But easy is the precursor to atrophy.
Examples
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Learning capacity and well-designed learning experiences are critical precursors to increased student performance and achievement.
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Learning capacity and well-designed learning experiences are critical precursors to increased student performance and achievement.
Academic text (2013) -
That was the precursor to the Internet, a very big idea.
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Which was in many ways a precursor to Arrested Development.
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This is just the precursor to the big one.
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Only Engelsing's study can be considered a precursor of modern social history.
Academic text (1993) -
No discussion of On Liberty is complete without a tribute to its noble precursor, Milton's Areopagitica.
Academic text (1993) -
In fact, Doyle (1980) stated that accountability was a necessary precursor for a task.
Academic text (2011) -
Truancy in middle and high school is often a precursor to dropping out, Stone said.
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As governor, Bush's formula for success was relatively simple, a precursor to his presidential campaign.
Synonyms
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6.1
A person or thing that announces the coming of something important
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8.7
A sign that something will happen soon, like dark clouds before a storm
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4.4
An event that comes before something more important
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4.9
Something that comes before and points to what comes next
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6.2
A person or thing that comes before something to prepare people
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5.2
An event that happens before a main event to prepare for it
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7.2
An event or action that comes before something more important
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7.3
An event or situation that happened before something and helped cause it
Something that comes before and shows what will happen next
A sign or early example that shows what will happen later
An event or example that shows what will happen later
A person or thing that came before another and influenced it
Antonyms
How Predictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word precursor comes from the Latin parts pre- 'before' and cursor 'runner'. Imagine a runner who goes ahead to announce something — a precursor is someone or something that comes before and shows what will arrive.