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What was also on the page but landed on the cutting room floor was an additional scene between Eric, his daughter Lily (Serrana Su-Ling Bliss), and his ex-wife Candice (Alexandra Moen) that immediately preceded the end credits and Eric’s walk down the street.
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Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2026
The show precedes a major exhibition of Lynch’s work slated for fall 2026 at Pace’s gallery in Los Angeles.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
The next step for the team is to determine whether these oral microbial signatures precede metabolic disease or simply mirror it.
—New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2026
Derry Girls, which followed teens in McGee’s native Derry in the years preceding 1998’s Good Friday Agreement, was a raucous, joke-dense show that juxtaposed mundane adolescent rites of passage with the daily horrors of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
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Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2026
The show precedes a major exhibition of Lynch’s work slated for fall 2026 at Pace’s gallery in Los Angeles.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
The next step for the team is to determine whether these oral microbial signatures precede metabolic disease or simply mirror it.
—New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2026
Derry Girls, which followed teens in McGee’s native Derry in the years preceding 1998’s Good Friday Agreement, was a raucous, joke-dense show that juxtaposed mundane adolescent rites of passage with the daily horrors of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
—Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for precede
predate
Verb
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For anyone who gravitates toward food halls and market culture, Arthur Avenue Retail Market predates the trend by the better part of a century.—
Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
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The 40-mile Grand Traverse from Crested Butte to Aspen over Star Pass, with 6,800 feet of climbing, predated the series Swenson created.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Precede.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precede. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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