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
“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
After all, machines that could play decent games of chess did not appear until the antecedents of IBM's Deep Blue in the late 20th century.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
In Virginia, there are also antecedents that reflect the state’s history of suppressing the African American vote.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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