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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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    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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    A precursor to COPD.†  (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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    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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    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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    We met that morning in the Team Meeting Room in Florida Field, a precursor to orientation to football and early workouts.†  (source)
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    The people were terrified of these two horrible curses, the two maladies which nothing could cure, and which were the precursors of an awful and lonely death.†  (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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    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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    A precursor to metasystems.†  (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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