"precursors" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe something that came before and may have led to or influenced a more recent event, thing, or person. Example: The artist's early works were precursors to the style and technique used in their later masterpieces.
These were the precursors to the juggernaut now known simply as the Islamic State, which has, under Bagdhadi's command, overrun much of the west and centre of the country and eastern Syria, and drawn the US military back to a deeply destabilised region less than three years after it left vowing never to return.
Every single piece of research says you can't pick who is going to become radicalised Anne Aly, deradicalisation expert "Precursors to violence, such as whether someone has a violent background or criminal history, is something which is factored into studies on other kinds of criminals and yet for some reason, not foreign fighters.
I ended up living on the outskirts of Lyon, which is where the first so-called urban riots kicked off – the precursors of the riots of the 2000s.
Security and prosperity, he argues, are necessary precursors to greater liberty.
Once the Americans left Iraq, and its Sunnis became embittered by the misrule of the Shia-dominated government, the jihadists swooped back in to take Mosul.The authors trace the ambiguous relationship between IS (or its precursors) and al-Qaeda, and examine key ideological texts (one is called "The Management of Savagery").
When tested in Petri dishes, the new molecules were as good as their precursors.
Mr Dolci did not really lead this slow process, but he was one of its precursors.
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Ms Nicholson shows us these people again, not as comic cartoons but as spirited and stoical precursors of modern feminism.
Dr Brüstle's method derives these precursors from human embryonic stem cells.
Lázaro Cárdenas is an entry point for South American cocaine, as well as precursors, and an exit route for drugs crossing the Pacific.
