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Recent Examples of precedent This adaptation demands re-conceiving large chunks of plot from the ground-up while retaining Liu’s themes, not to mention visualizing concepts with less precedent onscreen than the fantasy tropes Martin deployed and subverted. Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024 Judge Barrett did not entirely embrace the notion of super-precedent. Jonathan Turley, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020 Many legal scholars question the basis for declaring an ever-wider array of cases to be super-precedent as a way to protect favored rulings. Jonathan Turley, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020 Britain has no clear privacy law, so precedent matters. The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019 See All Example Sentences for precedent
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  • The skid is a new season-long, surpassing two previous six-game losing streaks — all of which have come since the calendar turned to July.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2025
  • With the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, Google will build on the success of the previous Pixel smartphones and lock in the earlier changes.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Precedent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precedent. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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