precede
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In the preceding weeks, he had been inexplicably losing weight, had struggled with coordination, and felt near-constant fatigue.
No community is a monolith, but one thing many Jewish Australians believe is that warnings about a rise of antisemitism in the months preceding this attack were ignored.
From BBC
Here’s a trivia question for your holiday road trip: In which five U.S. metropolitan areas did the consumer-price index rise by less than 2% over the preceding 12 months?
It is preceded by musings that perhaps a king shouldn’t have the absolute powers he does—which felt like a perfunctory contemporary allusion.
It’s a quietly devastating moment that conveys everything you need to know about the pair, their relationship and their commitment to the Rebellion — even if you hadn’t watched everything that preceded it.
From Los Angeles Times
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