All 4 Uses
precede
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
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- Embedded in the dirt before one of the markers was a narrow vase containing three small American flags, the only sign that someone had preceded me to this place in this century.†
Part 1preceded = went or was before
- She sincerely wants to precede me.†
Part 1 *
- He spent a fair amount of time tapping on the keys and then studying cod ed responses on the data screen—a considerably longer time, it seemed to me, than he'd devoted to the people who'd preceded me in line.†
Part 2preceded = went or was before
- I knew she would be devastated to learn that my death would almost surely precede hers.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)