5 uses
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Definition
to go or do before
- As on the preceding afternoon, the trouble lay in assembling the cast.Part 1 (16% in)
- The sequence was illogical—the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should have preceded the marriage proposal.Part 1 (20% in)
- As he approached it occurred to him that it might be preferable for his letter to precede him into the house.Part 1 (49% in)
- They all lived in fear of Sister Marjorie Drummond, of the menacing meager smile and softening of manner that preceded her fury.Part 3 (1% in)
- All the preceding drafts were pitiless.Part 3 (98% in)
There are no more uses of "precede" in Atonement.
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