Both Uses
precede
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The battleships the boys had seen anchored off Saipan that had preceded them by days to Iwo Jima reassured the Marines: enormous monsters capable of lobbing 2,600-pound shells the size and weight of large automobiles to smash the enemy's blockhouses.†
Chpt 6. *preceded = went or was before
- In the most tangible of ways, the boys' reputation had preceded them.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)