precedent
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There’s a precedent for finding a successful replacement for the world-changing founder CEO, but Nvidia needs someone truly unique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
And by making the personally repulsive Hegseth an example, they would set a salutary precedent for every succeeding presidential administration.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026
A recent ceasefire in the Kherson region was "a very positive precedent", Fesenko said, predicting Kyiv will likely push for more "de-escalation of the war through such local truces".
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Legal experts have told the BBC that while this case does not automatically set a legal precedent, it is likely to lead to similar claims in future.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Mrs. Gascoyne said they didn’t want to treat me differently from everyone else in the school because then everyone would want to be treated differently and it would set a precedent.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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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
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
And some of that line crossing could set dangerous precedents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
And in fact, there are precedents for such a case, including one in which a woman successfully had her father’s DNA removed from a database in Iceland.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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