preceding

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Central banks purchased over 1,000 metric tons of gold each year in 2022, 2023 and 2024 — roughly double the average over the preceding decade, according to the World Gold Council.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

As with stocks, what went up the most in the months preceding the war fell the most as investors pulled back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

That theory has been tested in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – and Iran itself over the preceding eight months.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

Many French intellectuals were already discussing the possibility of a political revolution in the years preceding 1789, and after 1776 the American Revolution presented them with a model.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton