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Discover Ludwig"the forerunner" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone or something that comes before or prepares the way for something else. It can also be used to describe a predecessor or a sign of something to come. Example: The invention of the printing press was a forerunner to the development of the modern computer.
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the forerunner
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A runner at the front or ahead.
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That club was the forerunner of what became Berghain.
The forerunner of parchment as a writing material was leather.
The Konversationslexikon was the forerunner of the Brockhaus encyclopaedias.
"Bill was the forerunner of the modern middle linebacker".
This group was the forerunner of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Stability in oil prices may have been the forerunner of something unpleasant, too.
His Southern Baroque Art (1924) was the forerunner of much academic research.
He recognized in John the forerunner of the kingdom that his own ministry proclaimed.
Protapirus from the Oligocene of Europe and North America was the forerunner of the modern tapirs.
In the Rigveda he is sometimes identified with Rudra, the forerunner of the god Shiva.
Gazette, originally, a newssheet containing an abstract of current events, the forerunner of the modern newspaper.
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