Thesaurus results for OUTRIDERS

outriders

noun

plural of outrider

as in forerunners

one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another sexologist Alfred Kinsey is now viewed as an outrider of the sexual revolution of the 1960s

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Recent Examples of outriders His deputies and outriders are not quite so deft. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025 Churchill Downs outriders, jockey agents, jockeys Florent Geroux and Julian Leperoux, as well as members of Lukas' barn staff also sat in the crowd. — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Aug. 2025 By contrast, during a recent visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, in July, the king's convoy included four cars and three police motorcycle outriders. — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

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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

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The project heralds from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors behind 2025 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Now Pedicularis had emerged as one of the first heralds of the Arctic summer, its stems wrapped in grayish, silky hairs that protect it like a warm winter coat.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of heralds

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This event, which resulted in the death of enslaver Edward Gorsuch, heightened tensions between the North and South and was one of the many precursors to the American Civil War.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Two other groups received Lasker Awards, which are often precursors for Nobel Prizes.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of precursors

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Culture and History Crows and ravens have similarly eerie reputations as spooky harbingers of death or danger.

— Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026
Our results, just published in the journal Science, suggest that the 1982-83 and 1997-98 El Niños – two of the strongest in recent memory – may be harbingers of more extreme events to come as the planet warms.

— Julia Cole, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of harbingers

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Her fantastical Biblical scenes, of a graphic, storybook sensibility, sometimes showed angels, and Christ himself, as chalky white, and this rang in some Black critical circles as a sign of backwater unsophistication.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
That kind of detail says so much more than cliches about angels or clouds.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of angels

Noun

Tentative signs of improvement emerged in May, June and July, when border crossings picked up slightly, the agency reported.

— Rio Yamat, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
Next, another set of no-parking signs went up and came down (except for several that were mistakenly left up), with no work having been done.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of signs

Noun

The use of an ECG alone has detection levels of up to 85 per cent, but some studies suggest an even greater rate for what are known as ‘silent killers’, where the vast majority display no symptoms before cardiac arrest.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
But cases are on the rise as more people report symptoms such as hives, diarrhea and itchiness after eating as little as a mouthful of red meat.

— Dylan Lovan, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

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