antecedent

The antecedent of the opinion’s only masculine pronoun is a hypothetical “biological male who identifies as male,” and the hypothetical counterpart who “identifies as female” gets no pronoun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

Nearly every beat, every quip, every character dynamic and every outbreak of fisticuffs has its clear antecedent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

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

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

While going rather easy on King George, Ms. Worsley is dismayed by the strategy of her antecedents, whose tactics often seemed calculated to fan the sputtering flames of rebellion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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

It is something of a puzzle that the word ‘experiment’ did not come with it, despite its respectable Latin antecedents.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton