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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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- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
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