Precursors
[prɪ'kɜːsəz] or [pri'kɝsɚz]
Examples
- The organization of this great empire seems to have been on a much higher level of efficiency than any of its precursors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Occam, Roger Bacon, these are the early precursors of a great movement in Europe away from Realism towards reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The incense sticks of the Chinese, the combustion of which proceeded so slowly and regularly as to render them available for time measures, were the precursors of the graduated candles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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