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Recent Examples of precedes
Your mental exhaustion often precedes your physical limitations.
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Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
Machine learning has identified systematic changes of microseismic activity that precedes large ruptures, and some studies of the physics of earthquakes have started to provide explanations of why that happens.
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Sylvain Barbot,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Yet the Utah pilot and the broader national debate reveal a deeper governance gap that precedes questions of licensure or competency testing.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
20 June 2026
Naraku’s reputation precedes him.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
In a former life, this appliance may have doubled as tools used in his prior trade; however, the rapper—whose reputation for serving up hearty helpings of clever musings on the drug trade precedes him—remains intent on feeding the streets.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
17 June 2026
The cost conversation, understandably, precedes all of this, and may (unfortunately) ward off some or all of you.
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Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
14 June 2026
Heat exhaustion is the warning and precedes heatstroke.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2026
Machine learning has identified systematic changes of microseismic activity that precedes large ruptures, and some studies of the physics of earthquakes have started to provide explanations of why that happens.
—
Sylvain Barbot,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Yet the Utah pilot and the broader national debate reveal a deeper governance gap that precedes questions of licensure or competency testing.
—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
20 June 2026
Naraku’s reputation precedes him.
—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
In a former life, this appliance may have doubled as tools used in his prior trade; however, the rapper—whose reputation for serving up hearty helpings of clever musings on the drug trade precedes him—remains intent on feeding the streets.
—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
17 June 2026
The cost conversation, understandably, precedes all of this, and may (unfortunately) ward off some or all of you.
—
Matthew Buzzi,
PC Magazine,
14 June 2026
Heat exhaustion is the warning and precedes heatstroke.
—
Lisa Fitzpatrick,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precedes
predates
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What looks like fondness at the household level is, at the biological level, the expression of a social architecture that predates dogs entirely.
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Alas, the problem long predates AI and runs much deeper.
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“Precedes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precedes. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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