precedent
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OpenAI also projects $2.5 billion in 2026 advertising revenue and has projected $100 billion by 2030, which has no precedent.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Tehran appeared to have taken action to establish a precedent and send a political message, but not on a scale that would make escalation unavoidable.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
It was a dazzling display of power on the mound without precedent in the long history of Major League Baseball, leaving everyone in the ballpark stunned by what they had just witnessed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Another radical departure from precedent was the participation of Arthur Burns, the chair of the ostensibly independent Federal Reserve, in the crafting of Nixon’s shock therapy program.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The mapping of the moon, beginning with van Langren in 1645, provided a crucial precedent for eponymic naming, helping to transfer it from geography to astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing precedent
Power Prefix: pre-
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