All 9 Uses
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- Although I was only slightly acquainted with Boukreev, I'd come to know and like Harris well dumped four quick photos of Harris and the preceding six weeks.†
Chpt 1preceding = prior (in time or space)
- The reputations of the Taiwanese preceded them to Everest.†
Chpt 8 *preceded = went or was before
- Over the preceding six weeks there had been several serious accidents: Tenzing's fall into the crevasse before we even arrived at Base Camp; Ngawang Topche's case of HAPE and subsequent deterioration; a young, apparently fit English climber on Mal Duff's team named Ginger Fullen who'd had a serious heart attack near the top of the Icefall; a Dane on Duff's team named Kim Sejberg who was struck by a falling serac in the Icefall and broke several ribs.†
Chpt 11preceding = prior (in time or space)
- Over the preceding week, Hall's Sherpas had stocked the Col with 363 pounds of bottled oxygen-55 cylinders.†
Chpt 12
- In truth Fischer was exhausted from the physical and mental d extraordinary strain of the preceding weeks.†
Chpt 15
- An atmosphere of terminal entropy pervaded the camp, heightened by the fact that our team which for the preceding six weeks had been encouraged to rely * In 1996, Rob Hall's team spent just eight nights at Camp Two (21,300 feet) or higher before setting out for the summit from Base Camp, which is a pretty typical acclimatization period nowadays.†
Chpt 19
- Over the preceding days, Cotter had been doggedly working the satellite phone to arrange a helicopter evacuation from the lower end of the Cum, so that Beck wouldn't have to descend the treacherous ropes and ladders of the Icefall, which would have been difficult and very hazardous with such severely injured hands.†
Chpt 20
- After the rescue team dispersed, I sat in the snow for a long while by myself, staring at my boots, endeavoring to get a grip on what had happened over the preceding seventy-two hours.†
Chpt 20
- Safe now, the crushing strain of the preceding days lifted from my shoulders, I cried for my lost companions, I cried because I was grateful to be alive, I cried because I felt terrible for having survived while others had died.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)