antecedents
Example Sentences
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“The publicity blitz for Hour of Code,” Ms. Singer writes, “had no antecedents in U.S. education and represented a new strategy for education reform.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
There are antecedents for what Universal is attempting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
“If I do something that shocks me or that I’m not proud of, I’m able to frame that behaviorally and sort of understand the antecedents, the behavior itself and then the consequence,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Her most obvious antecedents were probably the nervy, forever restless Bette Davis and her Gallic descendant, Jeanne Moreau.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
As for the antecedents of those events, how did Atahuallpa come to be at Cajamarca at all?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
