Sample Sentences forprecursor (auto-selected)
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You mean all that was just the precursor?† (source)
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It was more than just a precursor to sex.† (source)
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In a way, that terrible episode became not only the precursor but also the symbol for all the horrible viciousness that would follow.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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This speech would stay with me in a way that a hundred of its precursors had not.† (source)
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We could say that the natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning, thereby becoming the precursors of what was to become science.† (source)
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Translation: the precursor to breast cancer.† (source)
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Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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When the hour comes Watch me dance along the narrowing path Glazed by the soles of my great precursors.† (source)
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Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The drug, Jensen learned, inhibited metaplasia, the shift of normal body cells to a new and bizarre form, a precursor to cancer.† (source)
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During this time, the jeweller made the diamond play and sparkle in the lamplight, and the gem threw out jets of light which made him unmindful of those which—precursors of the storm—began to play in at the windows.† (source)
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A precursor to COPD.† (source)
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While there were wilder lands, occupied by creatures that were the precursors of the other races scattered throughout the islands, the true beginning of the Archipelago was here, on the island of Byblos.† (source)
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