precedented
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Things are almost always precedented; recency bias and the narrative need for drama can lead us to inaccurately label an event as exceptional when it’s really just unusual.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2023
But no one could predict how the next few years would go, not just for Noah but for life itself, when unprecedented times became exhaustingly very precedented.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
"That second order is almost not precedented," Bone said.
From Fox News ● Jan. 14, 2022
“Unlike what we were saying even a year ago, we have learned how to live through these precedented times,” CTG’s Pressman says over the phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
Foreign money was being loaned to all sorts of Argentine enterprises on a scale that, considering the small population of the country, has never been precedented anywhere.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
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