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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Existing or coming before another or others in time, place, or sequence; previous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Going before; -- opposed to
following . - adjective (Astron.) In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See
Following , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring before or in front of something else, in
time ,place ,rank orsequence . - verb Present participle of
precede .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- adjective existing or coming before
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Examples
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The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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The recognition of Conversion, in fact, requires us to admit that, formally, in a logical proposition, the term preceding the copula is subject and the one following is predicate.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Label (render the label preceding the above, wrapped in a tag
Planet PHP 2009
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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Yet UN officials said this epidemic was unexpected, attempting to excuse their slow response and failure to quarantine the zone where cholera broke out - even as they took credit in preceding months for preventing a postearthquake outbreak of infectious disease.
Crossover Dreams: The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is Lying to You Crossover Dreams 2010
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Now, if you hate writing short stories, most of the preceding is probably irrelevant to you.
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Each passage, let it be noted, solves a problem posed in preceding stanzas.
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008
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Indiana Jones name shall have very good effect but only on Indiana Jones Fan for some reason if somebody didn't like Indy in preceding films then bam this is a big NO to them
It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I'd guess most of the contributors to this blog are men, and (from what I've already read in preceding posts) I don't think it's necessary to ask you to set one-on-one time aside for each of your kids.
Youth Sports 2008
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The preceding is an excellent example of the ridiculous hold that “energy independence” maintains over American political discourse.
joad.marshal commented on the word preceding
In the context of computer programming, consider using leading instead.
February 16, 2015