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This serves as further evidence that the antecedent of the Houthi movement respected the language of power, readily cooperating with those providing it, regardless of ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Arm in arm with this, and less discussed, is the death of deductive logic, the ability to understand cause and effect by composing simple conditional arguments with an antecedent and a consequent.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025

They found that physical frailty can be an indicator of future social isolation over time and that loneliness may be both an antecedent and an outcome of frailty.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

Maybe the closest antecedent is a new, $85 million HUD program called “Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing,” or PRO Housing, which this summer issued 17 grants of a few million dollars each.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2024

When phrases come in pairs like this, the first phrase is called the antecedent phrase, and the second is called the consequent phrase.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“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

There are antecedents for what Universal is attempting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

“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

None of the possible antecedents are reproduced exactly.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

Perhaps we can find the answer in the antecedents for each.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson