The plural of forerunner; multiple people or things that signal or precede something important.
From 'forerunner' + the regular English plural '-s'. Indicates multiple precedents or predecessors.
When historians talk about the 'forerunners' of the Scientific Revolution, they're looking back centuries to see which thinkers laid the groundwork—it's like tracing the DNA of an idea through history.
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