precursive
- a variation of precursory.
Example Sentences
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"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon last year.
From Salon ● May 9, 2023
"They're extremely intelligent, they're very similar to us, they have cultures, they have prototypical behaviors that are assumed to be precursive of language," Dr. Adriano Lameira told Salon.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2022
It was as if the precursive tremor of a moral earthquake had been felt, and people, only half awake, did not know whether to seek safety in the house, or outside of it.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
This precursive solitude had tinged his very life-blood, and woven itself into the secret tissues of his brain.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
Now the amœboid state is a notable phenomenon throughout the monads as precursive of striking change.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
