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And later that year, she opened a series of shows for Liz Phair, one of her heroes and another clear stylistic antecedent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“He felt like a direct historical antecedent to the Rupert Pupkins and Travis Bickles of the world. He fell through the cracks and we lost potentially one of our greatest presidents because of it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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 Satanic panic isn't even the best kind of antecedent, but rather the child abduction panic or the gang crime panic, where there is a real problem, but blown out of proportion.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024

Listen to antecedent and consequent phrases in the tune "Auld Lang Syne."

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

“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

The current wave of activism, he observes, is not so different from its antecedents.

From Salon ● May 2, 2024

“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

Of course, the discovery game had its antecedents and its precedents.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton