antecedent

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However, there is a risk of even more Sierra snowpack and excessive rainfall along the coast, which could lead to localized flooding “given the very wet antecedent conditions,” the National Weather Service said.

From Los Angeles Times

The series becomes sillier as it becomes more serious, wending its way to a bizarrely cheerful conclusion — given the dour preceding hours — that shares only a fire with its literary antecedent.

From Los Angeles Times

On the chance side, you can find antecedents to what he is doing in the work of Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and Ellsworth Kelly.

From Washington Post

The cultural antecedents of many wines from the 20th century, made without community involvement, were more difficult to trace.

From New York Times

They can abandon, or at least qualify, their belief in genetic engineering, or they must generate an ever increasing number of claims that these relatives and antecedents, too, have been fabricated or engineered.

From Scientific American