as in to precede
to go or come before in time the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites claimed to base their principles and practices on the Italian art that anteceded Raphael and other masters of the High Renaissance

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  • Walters tapped the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that published Project 2025 and the blueprints that preceded it, to help rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Modern observations rule that out, instead pointing to a picture where an early inflationary period preceded the hot Big Bang, and where even the hottest temperatures reached are significantly below the Planck scale.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Antecede.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecede. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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