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Things are almost always precedented; recency bias and the narrative need for drama can lead us to inaccurately label an event as exceptional when it’s really just unusual.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2023
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 is said to have been of the character of rheumatic fever, but its virulence and rapidity were scarcely precedented.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
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