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  • Translation: the precursor to breast cancer.†  (source)
  • A precursor to metasystems.†  (source)
  • The instrument was the precursor to the camera; some painters—Vermeer was one—had used it as a tool to achieve an extraordinary level of detail in their work.†  (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)
  • So the worst thing that occurs is that we're still reading the same story as if the literary precursors weren't there.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A precursor to COPD.†  (source)
  • 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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