precedented
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
It’s also precedented; when NHL players weren’t in the 2018 Olympics, some college players stood out.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
My Father, fully occupied with moulding the will and inflaming the piety of my stepmother, left me now, to a degree not precedented, in undisturbed possession of my own devices.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund
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