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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
preexist .
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Examples
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In a recent thread a link pointed to an argument made by Peter Williams that a mind preexists the development of a brain.
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A phenomena within health care, often applied when no rational scientific explanation can be given, preexists medicine itself.
Craig Garner: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': From Miracles to the Miraculous 2010
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A phenomena within health care, often applied when no rational scientific explanation can be given, preexists medicine itself.
Craig Garner: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': From Miracles to the Miraculous 2010
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As I may have mentioned before, I'm a great believer in the Emerson maxim: "The end preexists in the means."
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It is a frighteningly abject version of Hegel's own system, oblivious to the march of History, an astonishingly resilient and resistant form of physical being that preexists the dialectic, standing outside and yet inside at the same time, a state of exception that uncannily resembles Hegel's own devouring and self-devouring dialectic.
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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That is certainly the position of most commentators; the courts have described the privilege as a "common law" privilege, that is, one that comes from the vast body of judge-made law that, in some cases, preexists the Constitution itself, being inherited from England.
Shayana Kadidal: Friday Night Massacre: Government Moves at Midnight to Dismiss NSA Lawsuits 2008
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That claim fell apart when I demonstrated that not only do I do care about it, but in citing a post from earlier this year which in turn quoted comments made last year, that my concern isn't ad hoc and preexists the instant case, resting on appropriately neutral, general principles.
The teddy bear teacher is sentenced to 15 days in prison. Ann Althouse 2007
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What makes this sort of love painful is, in fact, that there preexists a sort of original sin of Woman, a sin which makes us love them, so that, when we forget it, we feel less need of them, and to begin to love afresh we must begin to suffer afresh.
The Captive 2003
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These books are known quantities, and a ready market preexists for them.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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These books are known quantities, and a ready market preexists for them.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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