as in preparatory
coming before the main part or item usually to introduce or prepare for what follows
instantly recognized that chilled feeling as one of the precursory symptoms of a cold
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Recent Examples of precursory
This precursory knowledge came in handy when flipping through Assayas’ and Emmanuel Carrère’s Kremlin script.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precursory
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The team will first play a preparatory series in Sri Lanka which begins in two weeks’ time.—
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They were discovered during preparatory work for road construction.—
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Ultimately, the appeals court affirmed the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction to Hecox, but vacated the injunction applied to the rest of the state.—
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He’s scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on Monday.—
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Episodes are bound together by banal introductory voiceover, in which our narrator recites ominous clichés that, like everything in His & Hers, border on parody.—
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So, with the support of the school for developing an introductory class on archaeology, Harris-Thacker developed one.—
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“Precursory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precursory. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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