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- adjective Occurring before or in anticipation of a
competition
Etymologies
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Examples
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She could do worse than getting a precompetition workout with him.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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If you are competitive, relaxation training can help you cope with precompetition anxiety so that your performance is not hampered.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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If you are competitive, relaxation training can help you cope with precompetition anxiety so that your performance is not hampered.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Twice at his final precompetition press conference, he teared up.
The Two Nicks 2008
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The difference in confidence between this year's precompetition comments and last year's was palpable.
NYT > Home Page By BILL CARTER 2012
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Tailor nutritional requirements to suit the four phases of an athlete's program: training, precompetition, during competition, and the after competition recovery.
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(Her last Olympics, in 2006, were ruined by a precompetition crash.)
NYT > Home Page By BILL PENNINGTON 2010
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(Her last Olympics, in 2006, were ruined by a precompetition crash.)
NYT > Home Page By BILL PENNINGTON 2010
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All show-jumping horses first had to spend nine days in Amsterdam - for a required precompetition quarantine - before they were sent to Hong Kong for equestrian events.
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All athletes who establish a world record or an Olympic record are tested; does precompetition testing at any time; top-five finishers in individual sports plus two other athletes ...
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