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
  • Patterson, who turns 27 on Tuesday, has experience at guard and center, and the 49ers needed a backup at both spots considering Toth’s lingering concussion symptoms.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • CoreCivic medical records reviewed by The Star show that within days of allegedly losing access to her hormone medication, Bartko made her symptoms known to medical staff.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of symptoms
Noun
  • Essay Get the Lead Out Alex Manley Our ancestors were born to die by predators.
    — Naomi Skwarna, hazlitt.net, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For the last decade, genealogical consultant Grant Din has helped Asian Americans find information about their ancestors, many of whom passed through San Francisco’s Angel Island Immigration Station in the 1900s.
    — Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 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
  • Kuiper compared World Central Kitchen and other volunteers to angels.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • May God’s angels carry you to your place of rest and true peace.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 20 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
  • The Habitable Worlds Observatory would be the first designed to photograph Earth-like planets — and even search for chemical signs of life within the atmospheres of those planets.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There are signs that Democratic voters, especially, are looking for change, and some young voters argue older politicians can’t truly understand a world transformed by artificial intelligence, rising housing costs and student debt.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 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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