Sample sentences for PRECURSOR

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Definition

an indication of (or contributing factor to) something to come

or in chemistry: a substance from which another substance is formed — especially by a metabolic reaction

Then he is the precursor.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The drug, Jensen learned, inhibited metaplasia, the shift of normal body cells to a new and bizarre form, a precursor to cancer.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
Maybe it had been the kiss, which was the precursor to that whole line of conversation.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
The mediaeval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
You mean all that was just the precursor?
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
This precursor to the Secret Service was a counterterrorism unit tasked with seeking out Confederate spy networks in Canada, New York, and Washington.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
But it was only a precursor of his old bitter, sleepless, and eternal vigilance.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
Now, my military advisers tell me that what is going on looks very much like a war exercise, indeed, could be the precursor to a war.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Whether it be Providence or Fate, Gutenburg is the precursor of Luther.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
We met that morning in the Team Meeting Room in Florida Field, a precursor to orientation to football and early workouts.
Tim Tebow -- Through My Eyes
Raising a shout of triumph, he sprang toward the defenseless Cora, sending his keen axe as the dreadful precursor of his approach.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
In a way, that terrible episode became not only the precursor but also the symbol for all the horrible viciousness that would follow.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
One set, for example, was simple aptitude tests developed by the Institute for Educational Research, a precursor to the group that now develops the SATs.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
So the worst thing that occurs is that we're still reading the same story as if the literary precursors weren't there.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
A precursor to metasystems.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Civilization fell behind me quickly, and I was soon surrounded by the blank hills and rocks that were the precursors to the empty desert wastelands.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
Translation: the precursor to breast cancer.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
When the hour comes Watch me dance along the narrowing path Glazed by the soles of my great precursors.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
She made an effort to alter her position, but failed: her face changed; she seemed to experience some inward sensation — the precursor, perhaps, of the last pang.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

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