precedent
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Two board members argued the temporary designation for Powell lacked historical precedent.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Responding to criticism, Fifa also claimed there was no precedent for transport price rises for a major event at MetLife Stadium.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
But even as it looked as if Section 2 was on borrowed time, the court sent repeated signals that it would, in fact, respect precedent when it came to protections against racial gerrymandering.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
Two years later, Rao is navigating a scale of growth that has almost no modern precedent.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Mrs. Gascoyne said they didn’t want to treat me differently from everyone else in the school because then everyone would want to be treated differently and it would set a precedent.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
Vocabulary lists containing precedent
Power Prefix: pre-
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