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Kirk's family has previously accused the university of serious security failures and has filed a wrongful-death notice, a step that can precede legal action.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

If completed, the new round would precede the company’s highly anticipated initial public offering, now expected next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Kroenke has not done the usual due diligence that would precede a sale — meeting with team management and touring the stadium — and has not introduced himself to officials from the city of Anaheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

For investors, the comparison may help shed some light on whether the turmoil in AI stocks signals the end of the boom or a temporary disruption that could precede another surge.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

As to which came first, the malignancy or the disturbance of the chromosomes, these workers say without hesitation that “the chromosomal irregularities precede the malignancy.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

All participants had a live conversation with a clinician and a professional interpreter, simulating the informational discussion of the risks and benefits which typically precedes myeloma treatment.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Sometimes, though, narrow market action really precedes a major cyclical turning point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It adds that the NHS disclosure of this approach precedes a major government-commissioned review of the "colossal increases" in diagnoses of ADHD, autism and mental illness.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The interview precedes a planned visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, D.C., where he’s expected to meet with U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

She can’t even look at it without her mouth filling with the acrid saliva that precedes vomiting.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The problem led to several cars, including those of the two multiple world champions who were sharing the front row of the grid, not working in the wet conditions that preceded the race.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Dev Ittycheria, who preceded Desai as MongoDB’s CEO, returned to lead the database company on an interim basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“The old guard was based on the community that preceded us. So, when we were coming up and out of high school where we were building our own, we really had to adapt,” Lawrence says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

However, in many of the drawdowns identified by RBC, the sudden slump in stocks was preceded by highly bullish investor sentiment, and this is nowhere apparent today.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Everyone knows this much about faith: that it is preceded by doubt the way day is preceded by night.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources climate scientist Daniel Swain also placed blame on a months-long marine heatwave preceding El Niño, as well as human-caused climate change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Certainly security had been visibly stepped up at the base in the preceding days, so certainly there had been some intelligence about a possible attack.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

In “A Moment in the Sun,” Shane White has created a remarkable portrait of black life in Manhattan that reveals the possibilities and limits of freedom during the 50 years preceding the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

It will help us explain why in the Ramesside period, officials such as Paser chose to reuse, modify or build tombs adjacent to the monuments of the preceding 18th-dynasty elites.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

After the rescue team dispersed, I sat in the snow for a long while by myself, staring at my boots, endeavoring to get a grip on what had happened over the preceding seventy-two hours.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer