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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hansen played in the American Basketball League, a forerunner of the NBA.
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The P-50 is a forerunner of today's supersonic jet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bloodthirsty wars between cities were the forerunner of the national wars to come.
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First, there are the older libraries which were the forerunners of the public libraries.
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Long ago, the forerunner to taekwondo was a military skill, and taekwondo puts fighting theories into practice.
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Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies.
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The ice safe kept in the cellar was a forerunner of today's refrigerator.
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These exercises, known as the 18 hands of Lo-Han, are popularly believed to be the forerunners of Shaolin temple boxing.