Sample Sentences forantecedent (editor-reviewed)
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Student motivation as an antecedent to accelerated education.antecedent = something that necessarily precedes something else
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Surges in debt are a recurring antecedent to U.S. banking crises.antecedent = something that precedes something else
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He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true. (source)antecedents = past actions
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They approve of your ancillaries and disapprove of your antecedents.† (source)
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This rubbishy "Neuro-hypnotism," however beribboned with new terminologies, is only Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism, re-writ; and that sickly nonsense was discredited long ago, as being merely a solemn-sounding blind, behind which men of questionable antecedents and salacious natures might obtain power over young women of the same, asking them impertinent and offensive questions and ordering them to perform immodest acts, without the latter appearing to consent to it.† (source)
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To look up the antecedents of all these people, to discover their bona fides —all that takes time and endless inconvenience.† (source)
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Mothers found strange men calling on their daughters, men who came without letters of introduction and whose antecedents were unknown.† (source)
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Steve had been a teacher of Afrikaans, and he not only spoke perfect Afrikaans but its antecedent, High Dutch.† (source)
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I was myself so much more antecedently conscious of my figures than of their setting—a too preliminary, a preferential interest in which struck me as in general such a putting of the cart before the horse.† (source)
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Thirdly, whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence; And when he cannot assure himselfe of the true causes of things, (for the causes of good and evill fortune for the most part are invisible,) he supposes causes of them, either such as his own fancy suggesteth; or trusteth to the Authority of other men, such as he thinks to be his friends, and wiser than himselfe.† (source)
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'My only response is that I'm entirely too kind and experienced to speculate on your antecedents.† (source)
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And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a particular set time or place were attained, when all possibilities would become probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every possibility the next thing to a certainty.† (source)
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Moreover, by chance or by devilry, the ministrant was antecedently made interesting by being a handsome stranger who had evidently seen better days.† (source)
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In his Foundations of Science Poincaré explained that the antecedents of the crisis in the foundations of science were very old.† (source)
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Or if the traditional birth image is remembered, nothing is said of an antecedent marriage.† (source)
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But I ought to understand how limited the possibilities of a firm like his were to hire a boy of my antecedents.† (source)
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