preceding

Example Sentences

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Super Saturday—the last Saturday before Christmas—saw store visits across retail rise 21.8% compared with the average foot traffic of the six preceding Saturdays, according to data from Placer.ai.

From Barron's

In the preceding weeks, he had been inexplicably losing weight, had struggled with coordination, and felt near-constant fatigue.

From The Wall Street Journal

No community is a monolith, but one thing many Jewish Australians believe is that warnings about a rise of antisemitism in the months preceding this attack were ignored.

From BBC

Here’s a trivia question for your holiday road trip: In which five U.S. metropolitan areas did the consumer-price index rise by less than 2% over the preceding 12 months?

From The Wall Street Journal

Rubio and his aides had already terminated hundreds of programs in preceding days.

From Salon