preceding
- adjective
- /prɪˈsiːdɪŋ/
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precedente
- Good moral character during the five years preceding the application.
They come into being from preceding events, right?
- They come into being from preceding events, right?
- Good moral character during the five years preceding the application.
- What are your rituals or routines preceding that?
- Or if you like, there was no day preceding The Big Bang.
- Take a script from the back to the front and make sure that every preceding scene sets up the next scene.
- So it's all about we, we talked about basic principles of risk management in the preceding lecture.
- There's so many things that go back to the very beginnings of recorded history that just don't make sense unless there was something preceding that.
- Let me just replicate the preceding three to six months of workouts and look at my intake and my diet at the time.
- We have lived through the world of a preceding evening.
- Remember we were talking earlier in section, some of the sections preceding this about the idea.
Examples
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Quite simply, stay connected to each other, To those you will meet who have preceded you at Stanford, and those who will follow.
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So in this, let me just review the preceding lecture briefly.
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Yeah, the Thursday preceding that is our midterm.
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And that's more than actually were killed by World War One, which had taken place over the four preceding years.
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So train jam is a game jam that starts that runs in the days preceding GDC.
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The preceding chapters of the book provided important background information.
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In the meeting, we discussed the preceding trends that led to the current situation.
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The data from the preceding month shows an increase in sales.
Synonyms
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1.0
Happening before now or before another event
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1.0
Mentioned earlier in the text or document
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2.9
Happening before something else in time
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4.1
Already present before something else happens, like a health condition
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7.4
Happening or existing before something else
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8.9
An item that comes before another in a list
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1.0
Happening before something else in time
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9.9
Happening before something else
Present before something else happened
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Etymology
The word preceding comes from the parts pre- 'before' and cede 'to go', the same root you see in proceed. So something 'preceding' is 'going before' or coming earlier in time or order.