antecedents

plural of antecedent

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Recent Examples of antecedents The parallel plotlines involving Ali’s possible descendants and problematic antecedents, including a father (Ercan Kesal) who seems to be particularly abusive towards his wife, collide in highly unusual ways during the movie’s volatile second half. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025 Art-wise, there are antecedents. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Many of Guardiola’s most famous antecedents — Bill Shankly, Arrigo Sacchi — either resigned or retired because of the strain the job placed on them. Rory Smith, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 But what sets the West apart from all its historical antecedents and modern counterparts is precisely its trial-and-error democracies, protected by politically and economically inclusive institutions. Vuk Vukovic, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024 The results said much about the foundational beliefs that serve as antecedents to their voting proclivities. Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 Chinatown is very much in argument with the style and structure of its antecedents, manifestly not the neo-noir it is often said to be. airmail.news, 20 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecedents
Noun
  • The causes of autism are unclear.
    Reuters, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Hooper died of natural causes in 2017, per The New York Times.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
    Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Moore suggests focusing on the social determinants of health — providing stable housing and a strong education, for instance — in addition to intervention work.
    Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Many infectious diseases are lethal only for the poor; they are layered atop comorbidities and chronic conditions produced by social and commercial determinants of health.
    Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Demosponges are soft and squishy filter feeders and their ancestors likely shared similar characteristics.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The African roots of cumbia are expressed not only through its percussion instruments - the tambor alegre, the llamador and the tambora - but also through the voices of ancestors reflected in the sung dances of the region.
    Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the late 2010s, the precursors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E were spluttering to life, making real the future that the Army had envisioned in World War II.
    Angus Fletcher, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And the precursors for that reality may already be in motion, Metzger noted.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But there’s growing evidence that the current shutdown is somewhat different from its predecessors.
    Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • None of his three immediate predecessors — Will Muschamp, Jim McElwain and Dan Mullen — lasted four full seasons.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Antecedents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecedents. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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