Example Sentences

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In the past, similarly low readings — which suggest investors aren’t all that worried about a bond-market selloff — have preceded stretches of strong equity returns.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 22, 2025

Thank you Helene for your beautifully courageous last story, and for all those that have preceded it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2024

Similar valuation levels have preceded periods of rocky performance.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

What I want is for my children to have an acute sense of the history that made them possible, an acute sense of the violence and the struggle that have preceded their lives.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

The sequence was illogical—the drowning scene, followed by a rescue, should have preceded the marriage proposal.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan