foregoers

noun

plural of foregoer
1
as in symptoms
one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another a nearly November snowfall that appears to be a disconcerting foregoer of the harsh winter facing us

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Relevance
2
as in ancestors
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed not many people still have manual typewriters, the foregoers to word processors

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foregoers
  1. symptoms
  2. ancestors
  3. precursors
  4. forerunners
  5. angels
  6. predecessors
  7. signs
  8. prototypes
Noun
  • Early symptoms of contracting the amoeba can include headache, fever, nausea, and vomiting, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The advisory follows glutathione’s use in the Altadena and Spokane wildfires and recalls at two pharmacies, where usage was linked to fevers, chills, severe headaches and other symptoms.
    — Martha Bellisle, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of symptoms
Noun
  • His ancestors moved there in the 1850's, and their photos and other archives are preserved inside the Roseville Historical Society museum.
    — James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • This response was presumably adaptive to prevent our ancestors from becoming underweight but is disastrous for today’s dieters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of ancestors
Noun
  • The ideology of Third Worldism and the New Agey, anything-goes-style progressivism of the West Coast that Naipaul so keenly lacerates were necessary precursors to the mass death in Guyana.
    — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, or microchip, and the handheld calculator—early precursors of AI.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of precursors
Noun
  • Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
  • One of the forerunners today in Madeira and the Azores is António Maçanita from Azores Wine Company.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of forerunners
Noun
  • The ultimate effect of Fedorov appeal to everyone’s better angels, is that Zelensky is weakened, the questions of his electoral legitimacy amplified, and the call for an end to the war bolstered.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That notion flattens a complex record and turns history into a morality play of angels and demons.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of angels
Noun
  • For decades, Mamdani’s predecessors have found the only choice more politically unpalatable than letting the whole three-layer cake of infrastructure crumble away is trying to stop it from crumbling.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike some of her predecessors, Leavitt was rarely caught off guard in public.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of predecessors
Noun
  • Few signs of humanity interrupted the rocky shoreline — just a couple of cabins and the wooden railings of a path leading to a wizened cedar tree revered by the tribe.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Dugger was the main talking point in defensive coordinator Raheem Morris’ press conference Saturday, because all signs are pointing to Dugger having a key role in the defense.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • Based on their discovery, Schumm and his colleagues have already built first early prototypes of new clocks, and have patented a route to building one that fits on a small chip.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The team’s engineers have already used 3D printing to help build robot prototypes that are being tested by certain customers.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of prototypes
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“Foregoers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregoers. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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