precedent
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“Some noted that no other quick-service burger concept offers hand-breaded chicken for good reasons, and cited the poor precedent offered by Burger King,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
There is no precedent that Oxford Street can copy.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
"This is not a precedent on one hand, but on the other it provides a learning for the development of the long-term model of the fund," the European Union's Jan Dusik said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its a continuation of the precedent they’ve set in terms of lyrical and sonic quality, but simultaneously is far more melancholic and synthesized than their previous work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The precedent he was setting may have seemed uplifting in retrospect, but at the time the glaring and painful reality was that the United States without Washington was itself unprecedented.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Possible precedents flicker: Maya hieroglyphs, Buddhist mandalas, Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts, Bosch, Gauguin, feathered Trinidadian carnival masks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The majority said Supreme Court precedents make clear that “mere offense, disagreement or distaste” isn’t enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Jackson flags this exact relationship in her dissent, as the court’s new ruling Monday “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs.”
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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