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preceded

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verb (used with object)

to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.

to introduce by something preliminary; preface: to precede one's statement with a qualification.

verb (used without object)

to go or come before.

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noun

Journalism. copy printed at the beginning of a news story presenting late bulletins, editorial notes, or prefatory remarks.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English preceden < Latin praecēdere. See pre-, cede

Related forms

pre·ced·a·ble, adjective

un·pre·ced·ed, adjective

Can be confused: precede, proceed.

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Public-college students will face tuition increases again this year, but not quite as large as those that preceded them.

They may have been preceded by quasars, which are mysterious, bright spots found at the centres of some galaxies.

In every case they looked at, overfishing by humans preceded ecosystem collapse.

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Public-college students will face tuition increases again this year, but not quite as large as those that preceded them.

They may have been preceded by quasars, which are mysterious, bright spots found at the centres of some galaxies.

In every case they looked at, overfishing by humans preceded ecosystem collapse.

Previous studies found a stone arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder, which implied a violent confrontation preceded his death.

When these ?ndings were described to the patient, he immediately recalled an incident that had preceded the onset of his symptoms.

The inevitable disappearance of information about any universe that preceded ours.

Maybe human breasts evolved as calorie storage sites, a kind of pantry that preceded refrigeration.

Specifically, an inverted yield curve has preceded each of the last seven recessions.

The gusty winds that preceded the storm did me a favor.

So the depth of this partial eclipse is greater than the three others that preceded it.

Middle schoolers on a field trip are coming down one of the trails, preceded by their laughter.

But, restoration of the rule of law must be preceded by a preexisting foundation or system of legal principles.

The true root cause is the credit boom that preceded the crisis.

Once on the bare, exposed ridge, heavy clouds started rolling toward us preceded by bouts of lightning.

That's already a quite complex framework, which also preceded your deity by definition.

And all, whether singly or in combination, have preceded previous recessions.

Twisters are usually accompanied or preceded by severe thunderstorms, high winds, or hail.

It is the same as fever and ague, only that the fever is not preceded by a chill or followed by perspiration.

But each of his reforms has been less ambitious than the one that preceded it.

In addition, they found evidence that ice-sheet collapse and methane release preceded a rise in global sea levels.

Smells recognize chemistry, and likely preceded consciousness.

Such revolutions are usually preceded by major controversies between incommensurate paradigms.

In fact temperature increases have been followed by higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, not been preceded by it.

Inflation preceded this phenomenon and indeed may have set it in motion.

Preceded in death by older sisters and brothers and numerous nieces and nephews.

The two nastiest global recessions of recent decades were preceded by huge and sudden rises in the price of oil.

But his tire was not a commercial success, since it preceded the existence of both the bicycle and automobile.

The bout is scheduled for ten rounds, and will be preceded by four other scraps.

The redesign was preceded by four years of discussions and.

The interview was preceded by a ten-minute montage:.

The daughter of a pharaoh seeks to establish herself as a peer to the men who preceded her.

Every trial was preceded by a hidden cue that could be valid or invalid.

He was correct, although this revolution in naval warfare was preceded by a gradual evolution.

Regardless of their native language, the subjects almost universally preceded object with verb: girl knob turns.

The peculiarity of it was that, although it was slight, it was preceded by a.

They were preceded and succeeded by other ways of loving books, and different books that were loved.

But there are two big differences between this recession and the three that preceded it in the past quarter of a century.

They are less dense but move even faster than slabs and are often preceded by a deadly shock wave.

But those forecasts preceded a bevy of poor economic reports, which may lead some economists to lower their estimates.

Three days of national protests preceded the reshuffle.

All these events appear to have preceded the oldest fossil stromatolites.

Many of our emotions are preceded by changes in our physical body.

Residents here said they felt three tremors starting around noon, preceded by a thunderlike rumbling.

Physical violence is almost always preceded by symbolically violent acts, either with words or body language.

In truth, the great age of exploring preceded him, but he accounted for much of what it left over.

Carpenter and others suspect that all critical transitions are preceded by the same basic patterns.

It might have been more clear if attribution had appeared at the end of the paragraph, or if preceded by a colon in this case.

The debate was preceded by an ugly back-and-forth about the past.

The island was on my scheduled itinerary, however, the oil spill that preceded my visit was not.

Blackout, preceded by grayout, is the point at which g force keeps blood from getting into the eyeballs.

Long preparation, therefore, preceded her act of defiance.

It illustrates a calendar cycle, called the tonalpohualli, and depicts four worlds that they believed preceded ours.

Click through to see the cover, plus a bonus look at the pencil sketch that preceded the full color cover.

Instead, they set out to imitate what they regarded as the unaffected grace of the often anonymous artists who preceded him.

And part of punk was its understandable rubbishing of the values of the culture that had preceded it.

Moreover, not all big quakes are preceded by foreshocks.

Equally inevitably it will be preceded by dysfunctional.

But if the raid was lightning-fast, the intelligence operation that preceded it was long and deliberate.

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Word Origin & History

precede

late 15c., "to go before" in rank or importance, from M.Fr. preceder, from L. præcedere "to go before," from præ- "before" + cedere "to go" (see cede). Meaning "to walk in front of" is from 1520s; that of "to come before in time" is attested from 1530s. Related: Preceding.

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