precede

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A European 10,000m bronze in the summer of 2024 preceded Olympic and World Championship appearances over the same distance, earning her British Athletics funding for the first time.

From BBC

England's Harry Brook has apologised after being involved in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer the night before a one-day international on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.

From BBC

That begins with the T20 World Cup and a preceding white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, which starts in just two weeks' time.

From BBC

Tweedy, Browne provided a list of companies whose stocks were trading at trailing price/earnings ratios above 40 and that had been buying back shares over the preceding 12 months.

From MarketWatch

The remaining participants showed signs of early cognitive decline, including mild cognitive impairment, a condition that often precedes dementia.

From Science Daily