antecedent(s)
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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
When Pareja began his own career as a free man, he had experience rare for any artist outside Italy, and firsthand knowledge of both royal portraiture and classical antecedents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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