antecedent

Example Sentences

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“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

There are antecedents for what Universal is attempting.

From Los Angeles Times

“Alligator Alcatraz” has antecedents in Florida’s historic chain gangs, where Black and queer workers in prison stripes toiled on roadsides and slept in cages often insured by the Charley E. Johns Insurance Agency.

From Salon

To be fair, Trump has never been explicit about the antecedent Again.

From Los Angeles Times

Arm in arm with this, and less discussed, is the death of deductive logic, the ability to understand cause and effect by composing simple conditional arguments with an antecedent and a consequent.

From Salon