- plural of antecedent.
antecedents
Britishplural noun
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ancestry
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a person's past history
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“The publicity blitz for Hour of Code,” Ms. Singer writes, “had no antecedents in U.S. education and represented a new strategy for education reform.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
We must use accurate and direct language to describe the democracy crisis, its historical antecedents and origins, global connections, and what may happen next based on the evidence.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
Cheney’s new book, “Oath and Honor,” is a mostly straightforward, occasionally repetitive, literarily undistinguished account of that investigation as well as its antecedents and aftermath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
“If I do something that shocks me or that I’m not proud of, I’m able to frame that behaviorally and sort of understand the antecedents, the behavior itself and then the consequence,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
As for the antecedents of those events, how did Atahuallpa come to be at Cajamarca at all?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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