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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

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 ● Mar. 13, 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 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

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

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

As for the antecedents of those events, how did Atahuallpa come to be at Cajamarca at all?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond