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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of precurse.

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Examples

  • I could hear Thomas in the pantry, alternately wailing for Mr. Arnold, as he called him, and citing the tokens that had precursed the murder.

    The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • I could hear Thomas in the pantry, alternately wailing for Mr. Arnold, as he called him, and citing the tokens that had precursed the murder.

    The Circular Staircase 1908

  • If Cluetrain is the text that precursed social networks and user-generated media, the TAZ pre-empted the Web - both perhaps the first document to name it and is prophetic of many of its features.

    home 2009

  • If Cluetrain is the text that precursed social networks and user-generated media, the TAZ pre-empted the Web - both perhaps the first document to name it and is prophetic of many of its features.

    home 2009

  • He suspects the Arizona hijacking was precursed very far in advance by the storied "dude dressed like Max Headroom" hijacking incident, broadcast over Chicago during a 1987 airing of I like to look at life in a "pool half full" sort of way.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • If Cluetrain is the text that precursed social networks and user-generated media, the TAZ pre-empted the Web - both perhaps the first document to name it and is prophetic of many of its features.

    home 2009

  • If Cluetrain is the text that precursed social networks and user-generated media, the TAZ pre-empted the Web - both perhaps the first document to name it and is prophetic of many of its features.

    home 2009

  • He suspects the Arizona hijacking was precursed very far in advance by the storied "dude dressed like Max Headroom" hijacking incident, broadcast over Chicago during a 1987 airing of Harvey Pekar -- irascible, schleppy malcontent; droll observer of life's minutiae; disagreeable

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • He suspects the Arizona hijacking was precursed very far in advance by the storied "dude dressed like Max Headroom" hijacking incident, broadcast over Chicago during a 1987 airing of Harvey Pekar -- irascible, schleppy malcontent; droll observer of life's minutiae; disagreeable

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • He suspects the Arizona hijacking was precursed very far in advance by the storied "dude dressed like Max Headroom" hijacking incident, broadcast over Chicago during a 1987 airing of Harvey Pekar -- irascible, schleppy malcontent; droll observer of life's minutiae; disagreeable

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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