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precede English

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precede Verb

— to come before. A precedes B in the alphabet. More change has happened in the last 20 years than in the preceding 100. Each of the above exercises should be immediately preceded by taking a deep breath.

precede

— verb be earlier in time; go back further Stone tools precede bronze tools — verb come before Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify — verb be the predecessor of Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands — verb move ahead (of others) in time or space — verb (= preface) furnish with a preface or introduction She always precedes her lectures with a joke He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution

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precede English » English

go before lead predate come before anticipate antecede forego preface forestall introduce go ahead pass go ahead of antedate advance forgo forerun take the lead take precedence progress prevent premise outstrip head go on ahead go in advance go former first begin warn take up strike up store away start up start out start set in motion set aside scout proceed prior previous prelude prefer preceding overtake overstep outrun outride

Topics precede topics

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States Time Relative time

Before
Physical actions Move Accompany

Go first
Physical actions Move Accompany

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Simple sentences

In Asia men usually precede women when walking.
Each number in the Fibonacci sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it.

Movie subtitles

The wife of a vassal may not precede the Queen of Burgundy!
Professor believes that you'd better precede the measures what sooner or later you'd be ordered to do anyway.
May God bless your work and guide your steps along that path of science where you precede us.
You managed to precede me, Captain.
It's the weirdest thing, the way they sometimes precede their idea with a phrase.
Therefore, I will precede him on his journey.
To follow well, one must precede.
You sense that an effort has been made in the studios to place everything in order, each event in its rightful place, bound by the strict rules of cause and effect, both those which precede and those which follow.
He whose footfalls precede him will die within a year.
And in some quite palpable way. they precede us.
To facilitate the broadcast media, we will precede each announcement with a 5 secs. tone, followed by a 1 sec. pause.
Unfamiliar insect life is supposed to precede each incident.
It always seems to precede me.
Precede me, please.
I prefer that you precede me at all times.
Did it not even precede your first meeting?
It kills me. It's the weirdest thing, the way they sometimes precede their idea with a phrase.
To follow well, one must precede. - And we know where he's going.
I precede the trips by certain preparations he may notice.
And weirdly often now with me the feeling is that they. are staring at us, that in some quite palpable way, they precede us.
And henceforth, a dessert course shall precede and follow every meal, including breakfast.
For example, Mintakan women precede their mates.
But that doesn't mean you should work with less precision. than performing seals, which precede you.
You'll precede us by waving the flag.
Because of this, I naturally precede anyone here.
To facilitate the broadcast media, we will precede each announcement with a 5 seconds. tone, followed by a 1 second pause.
Some scientists think that when a red shift is followed by blue shift causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes.
Our reputations precede us.
Doesn't your reputation precede you by this point?
It knows what must precede the dance of love.
I tried in my youth to enter the Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me possibly to get into the arsenal and precede Lortie in a raid.
But your reputation does precede you.

News and current affairs

It is through studies of the way the brain learns about stimuli, such as the sounds that precede danger, that our systems for learning about fear, and memory as a whole, have been elucidated through rat studies.
Economic liberalization should precede political reform.
Allowing free elections and true political competition is also critically important, but this should follow economic reforms, not precede them.
A systemic solution must precede, not follow, the creation of new European institutions.
Merkel insists that a political union should precede a full-fledged fiscal and banking union.
At the same time, Bernanke is inheriting a pair of economic vulnerabilities that are unusual by historical standards, and that did not precede the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Kupchan never mentions a common currency as a condition of comity among nations; in fact, economic integration tends to follow, rather than precede, achievement of political unity.
True, most studies suggest that developing countries ought to precede any sharp opening to international financial markets by liberalizing trade.
These steps would precede concrete legal and constitutional reforms, such as those proposed by Hizb al ghad.
But they precede by a year the power duo that the Clintons may form in the United States, which gives them an aura of importance that extends far beyond Latin America.
But the evidence for believing that euroization can precede sufficient institutional reforms is scant.
Should political openness precede, rather than follow, economic growth?
The Oxford University economist Paul Collier has shown that years of weak economic growth typically precede civil war in poor countries.

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