antecedent

Example Sentences

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This serves as further evidence that the antecedent of the Houthi movement respected the language of power, readily cooperating with those providing it, regardless of ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

They found that physical frailty can be an indicator of future social isolation over time and that loneliness may be both an antecedent and an outcome of frailty.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Maybe the closest antecedent is a new, $85 million HUD program called “Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing,” or PRO Housing, which this summer issued 17 grants of a few million dollars each.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2024

The Winogram scheme challenge is a twist on that, designed for testing whether an artificial intelligence can understand language — specifically, the identification of the antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

When phrases come in pairs like this, the first phrase is called the antecedent phrase, and the second is called the consequent phrase.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones