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“Had such information been available, the strike would not have been carried out,” it said, noting that it was preceded by the required planning and approval process.

Nelson is preceded in death by her ex-husband, who died in June 2019.

The president-elect already has done so with some grotesque Cabinet choices, preceded by his anticonstitutional demand that senators forfeit their “advice and consent” power and instead be rubber stamps.

A typical ORF is also preceded by a snippet of DNA that attracts the proteins needed for the gene to be read.

Indeed, last week a 1,100-year-old pyramid in Mexico collapsed into a pile of rubble because of heavy rainfall that was preceded by record-breaking drought that evaporated entire lakes.