precedes

present tense third-person singular of precede
as in predates
to go or come before in time there are two speeches which will precede yours

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Recent Examples of precedes Alpe d’Huez’s reputation precedes it; for atmosphere, no climb in the Tour has more prestige. Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Aquino had recently been awarded second place in the regional pageant, which precedes the national Miss Universe Honduras pageant. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026 Their interaction precedes one of the film’s most nightmarish moments, involving a mixture of practical and special effects that Patel compares to An American Werewolf in London. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 July 2026 After running into overbought territory on the push above $90, momentum has cooled to a level that historically precedes the next leg higher in a stock with this kind of trend structure. Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 13 July 2026 As a result, organizers decided that once the peloton reached France for the last 40 kilometers, the publicity caravan — a 10-kilometer-long procession of sponsor vehicles that precedes the race — would not operate. ABC News, 6 July 2026 Your mental exhaustion often precedes your physical limitations. 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
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predates
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  • The third leg of the shift sits below the MLS first team altogether, and predates this week’s news.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • And the Chinese relationship long predates the current pressure campaign; it was built when Western majors walked away from Iraq’s oilfields.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Precedes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precedes. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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