precedentin a sentence
precedent as in: sets a precedent
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If the looters are not punished, it will set a precedent that others can loot with impunity.precedent = an example from a prior time that justifies the belief
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Legal precedent set by the Supreme Court should be followed by all lower courts.precedent = a decision made at a prior time
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There was no precedent for this: my father had never visited my room before. (source)precedent = example from a prior time
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Every American airman knew about Nanking, and since then, Japan had only reinforced the precedent. (source)
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Eric stopped talking and looked at the judge, perhaps considering an objection for such an open display of partiality, but there seemed no legal precedent. (source)precedent = an example from a prior time that justifies the belief
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Lei and Yang both had deep technical backgrounds, and wouldn't have been easily fooled, but the experiment described by Ye did have real precedents in Western solar research.† (source)
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The Church has a precedent of murder when it comes to silencing the Sangreal.† (source)
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There is anticipation in the air but it is not the expectant midsummer hum of a shirt sleeve crowd, a sandlot game, with coherent precedents, a history of secure response.† (source)
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This was absolutely un-precedented in the Jewish community at that time.† (source)precedented = preceded by a similar action or event
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In the first place, there was no precedent to show us how to behave or what to feel.† (source)
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With issues of such immense national consequence to be addressed, policies to be considered and resolved, precedents to establish, laws to enact, an entire new structure for the governance of the nation to be brought into being, could he, given his nature, do justice to the essentially passive, ceremonial role he had been chosen to fill?† (source)
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The comeback, if successful, would be un-precedented.† (source)
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There is no precedent for what Peeta has done.† (source)
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It's also an important part of our common citizenship; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the judicial precedents, all these are in English.† (source)
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They can hit us, there's Scriptural precedent.† (source)
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Drew and I have spent the past three hours at his dining room table with dueling laptops, pulling up research and precedents for the most boring argument ever on term limits.† (source)
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