All 3 Uses
precede
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Someone Like You
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- As a Boy with a Reputation, his neighborhood legend preceded him.
Chpt 2 *preceded = came before
- Not here, in a room with a dirty litter box and Penthouse magazine on the floor, where Elizabeth Gunderson had preceded me.†
Chpt 14preceded = went or was before
- She opened her mouth to say something more but I didn't hear it, never got a chance, because just then the door slammed open and Ginny Tabor burst in with a blast of pink satin, her voice preceding her.†
Chpt 18preceding = prior (in time or space)
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)