antecedents
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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
“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
You write that "almost all of the court reforms being debated today have historical antecedents in the Reconstruction period."
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
For any one war seemed so rooted in its antecedents.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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