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antecedent

preceding in time or order

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Six example sentences with antecedent, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every eruption there had an antecedent tremor, small enough to ignore but always recorded a day or two before.

    Science

  • Scholars trace an antecedent version of the tale in a manuscript copied two centuries before the famous printed edition.

    Literature

  • The report treats the shipping strike as the antecedent event, with the price rises following six weeks later.

    Economics

  • The court asked whether the antecedent agreement, signed two years earlier, still bound the parties after the merger.

    Law

  • The argument assumes an antecedent cause for every event, which is exactly what the skeptic refuses to grant.

    Philosophy

  • The physician asked about any antecedent illness, since the rash often follows a mild fever by about a week.

    Medicine

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