precede

Example Sentences

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Even when events did precede a market decline, stocks often recovered within weeks or months.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

An elaborate show featuring poetry, pyro and Frederic Michalak will precede the match.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

The board's plan to precede the front entrance by a large flight of steps and a square would entail destroying up to two blocks of homes.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The team combined evidence linking ε3 and ε4 to Alzheimer's, broader dementia diagnoses, and the brain changes that precede the disease.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker