antecedent
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Wilson redefined “liberty” not as a natural right antecedent to the government, but as “the right of those who are governed to adjust government to their own needs and interests.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
The Winogram scheme challenge is a twist on that, designed for testing whether an artificial intelligence can understand language — specifically, the identification of the antecedent of an ambiguous pronoun.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023
If something has happened, then so must its antecedent have done: if a man has forgotten something, it follows that he knew it in the first place.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
While going rather easy on King George, Ms. Worsley is dismayed by the strategy of her antecedents, whose tactics often seemed calculated to fan the sputtering flames of rebellion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
Cheney’s new book, “Oath and Honor,” is a mostly straightforward, occasionally repetitive, literarily undistinguished account of that investigation as well as its antecedents and aftermath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
“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
Her most obvious antecedents were probably the nervy, forever restless Bette Davis and her Gallic descendant, Jeanne Moreau.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
In view of these antecedents, it is not surprising that three of the insecticides that are related to this group are among the most violently poisonous of all the hydrocarbons.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing antecedent
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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