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to go or do before

preceded = were before in time

precede = go before

precedes = leads or introduces

one of the hens, had laid an egg the preceding day.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

preceding = prior (the day that came before this)

I motioned for him to precede me into the church.
Ernest J. Gaines -- A Lesson Before Dying

precede = go before

However, this time, what the Happy Jack staff doesn't know is that Connor Lassiter's reputation has preceded him.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

preceded = arrived before

It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceded = were before

His well-earned reputation for savagery preceded him on the streets.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

preceded = went before

In the preceding scene, I played Pinkerton, the womanizing cad, and my friend Marc from school ....
David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly

preceding = previous

If any adjective ever preceded her introduction, it was always one of pride: "my full sister, Lindsay"; "my whole sister, Lindsay"; "my big sister, Lindsay."
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

preceded = went before

But at last with a great creaking and sighing he heaved up his enormous body, signed to the slaves to precede him with the lights, and went out.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

precede = go before

Carlson stepped back to let Slim precede him, and then the two of them went out the door.
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

precede = go before

The word cryptic popped into Flora's head. It was preceded by the word unnecessarily. "Unnecessarily cryptic," said Flora out loud.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

preceded = led (something was before something else)

I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceding = prior (the most recent to pass)

This day was passed in the same routine as that which preceded it.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceded = was before

precedes = arrived earlier

I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceding = prior

The horrible scene of the preceding day was forever acting before my eyes; the females were flying and the enraged Felix tearing me from his father's feet.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceding = prior

I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

preceding = prior

There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here.
Shirley Jackson -- The Lottery

preceded = come before

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