foregoers

plural of foregoer
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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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Noun
  • My symptoms turned out to be the stomach flu.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
  • The last day to monitor for symptoms is July 2.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Goodhouse recalled stories his grandfather would tell him of their ancestors who were in the Hunkpapa camp when troops attacked.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 June 2026
  • These findings suggest that throughout great ape evolution, our ancestors gradually developed more control over the timing of their vocalizations, including laughter.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
  • Tort claims are necessary precursors to potential lawsuits against the government.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Even the Hammurabi Code, a set of laws created by the sixth Babylonian king in approximately 1760 bce, established forerunners of today’s interest rate and minimum wage laws.
    Chris Roush, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The Norwegian ended his season before the Olympics to further recover from a shoulder injury, but attended the finals as one of the forerunners, who test a course shortly before a race starts.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • So a crew of angels and one unruly human are on a mission to rescue every Black person and bring them to heaven.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • And, if men are deaf, the angels hear.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Those deals, however, were executed by Johnson’s predecessors.
    Thomas Drance, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • There is something stereotypically masculine about the kind of chest-pumping, overly stylish translations of your predecessors.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • And the deals extend well beyond skin care, with discounts on hair and makeup products that address everything from early signs of thinning hair and sparse brows to dull complexions in need of a natural-looking flush.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 23 June 2026
  • Chopper 4 flew over the detention center and observed no visible signs that the facility was being dismantled.
    Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Musk has sought for more than a decade to get the public comfortable with SpaceX’s approach to rocket development, which emphasizes testing cheap prototypes in flight and embracing the occasional mishap rather than trying to guarantee perfection.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • Now two of the prototypes developed by Arup, KNE Studio, and Reddymade have gone up at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street, offering a glimpse of less cluttered sidewalk protection in sky blue and taxi yellow.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 June 2026
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“Foregoers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregoers. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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