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preexists

verb

present tense third-person singular of preexist

as in precedes

to go or come before in time an advanced Mesoamerican civilization whose apex and collapse preexisted the arrival of Europeans by hundreds of years

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Heat exhaustion is the warning and precedes heatstroke.

— Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Her reputation precedes her, so everyone gets a superstar’s whistle when being defended by Brink.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026

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