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Stone tools preceded bronze tools.preceded = were before in time
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In English, most adjectives precede the noun they modify.precede = go before
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She always precedes her lectures with a joke.precedes = leads or introduces
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Somewhere, a mockingjay gives the warning whistle that precedes the hovercraft. (source)precedes = comes before
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There was my answer, in the text that preceded Part III ... (source)preceded = was before
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It wasn't until I had children of my own that my grandmother told me about her life in Mexico, about a fairy-tale existence with servants, wealth, and grandeur, which had preceded her life in the company farm camp. (source)preceded = been before
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He wondered if he had been knocked unconscious, because he had only dim recollections of events immediately preceding the moment he had sat up, groaning, in the woods ten yards from the Land Cruiser. (source)preceding = before
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An old and unpleasant odor preceded him. (source)preceded = arrived before
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I motioned for him to precede me into the church. (source)precede = go before
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Your reputation precedes you. (source)precedes = arrived earlier
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By the time the sun was halfway to its zenith the ordinariness of the day encroached from every direction, the concrete, tangible, undeniable world insisting that the preceding night had not happened. (source)preceding = having just passed
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However, this time, what the Happy Jack staff doesn't know is that Connor Lassiter's reputation has preceded him. (source)preceded = arrived before
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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. (source)precede = go before
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A warm dense fog had settled over the paddies and there was the stillness that precedes rain.† (source)precedes = goes, does, or is before
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As long as I take it in the week, preceding the full moon, I keep my mind when I transform.... I'm able to curl up in my office, a harmless wolf, and wait for the moon to wane again. (source)preceding = before
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I returned to the Internet and then to the shelves, where I exchanged the books of the second wave for those that preceded the first— (source)preceded = came before
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