precede

Example Sentences

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Even when events did precede a market decline, stocks often recovered within weeks or months.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

An elaborate show featuring poetry, pyro and Frederic Michalak will precede the match.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

The board's plan to precede the front entrance by a large flight of steps and a square would entail destroying up to two blocks of homes.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

A rate check is typically a signal that authorities are concerned about how a particular currency is trading, and can precede a direct intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

But at last with a great creaking and sighing he heaved up his enormous body, signed to the slaves to precede him with the lights and went out.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis