All 4 Uses
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Typical American, by Gish Jen
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- Though a girl, she had been preceded by a twin sister who had died, so that her own touch-and-go start was cheered breath by halting breath; and in later life, she'd been blessed by just enough lingering, sometimes serious illness, to win her much fuss.†
Chpt 2.9preceded = went or was before
- Who could believe, though, that in a few months she'd be like Janis, distinctly preceded wherever she went?†
Chpt 2.14 *
- Everyone knows this much about faith: that it is preceded by doubt the way day is preceded by night.†
Chpt 4.28
- Everyone knows this much about faith: that it is preceded by doubt the way day is preceded by night.†
Chpt 4.28
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)