as in preceded
to go or come before in time
if the sparse crowds are any indication of the public's interest in the presidential candidate, then his reputation obviously foregoes him
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foregone
Adjective
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Known for drawing massive crowds to the small Georgia beach town, Orange Crush has long stirred controversy among residents and law enforcement because of past violence, arrests and trash left behind in its wake.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2026 -
The duty of making any kind of statement about press freedom typically falls on the president of the WHCA, who has a speaking slot at the dinner and, in past years, has highlighted First Amendment issues and the detention of journalists abroad.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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He was preceded in birth order by brothers Virl and Tom, who were born with severe hearing impairment.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Olive Osmond, and his brother Wayne.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Leslie and her gruff-but-caring, staunch Libertarian boss Ron Swanson (the incomparable Nick Offerman) became symbols of bygone bipartisanship, not to mention endless memes.—
Jennifer Armstrong,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2026
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That training — not unlike the kind of traditional first jobs peers his age would work for decades to come in the full-service gas station business of a bygone era — led to his full immersion in the family business.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Her father is musician and writer David Turin, an erstwhile editor of mine some three decades ago.—
Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
14 Apr. 2026
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These deals – most recently Brea’s — enrage Norby, the erstwhile former assemblyman.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There are other candidates, including a Billy Bigelow-like romantic opportunity for Melissa, courtesy of Max Clayton.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The schedule at 4 North is similar to other units in the jail, with inmate counts multiple times a day.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Subscribe today Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore, while Leonie is away preparing for CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE event, featuring names like former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Capital Group CEO Mike Gitlin.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Classic films from the likes of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as well as Ken Loach, will be among the ways the fest will fete the dual anniversaries, along with an exhibition, a photo exhibition honoring later former president Václav Havel.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Serpell is also a sometime film critic for the Review, contributing considerations of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, and a bravura essay about Émile Zola and the movie Zola.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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Schnabel — who watched the film near the front of the theater while sitting with pal Tom Waits, the musician and sometime actor who lives in Sonoma County — addressed the walkouts immediately as the post-film discussion moderated by Sundance Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez began.—
G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But close to 1,000 people had gathered in the town square, all of them waiting for Péter Magyar, a onetime Orbán loyalist who broke with the prime minister two years ago and is now trying to unseat him in elections on Sunday.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Mark Ruffin, a onetime music director at WBEE, recalled Alston’s enterprising nature and her aptitude for sales.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Foregone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregone. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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