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Things are almost always precedented; recency bias and the narrative need for drama can lead us to inaccurately label an event as exceptional when it’s really just unusual.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2023

But no one could predict how the next few years would go, not just for Noah but for life itself, when unprecedented times became exhaustingly very precedented.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

"That second order is almost not precedented," Bone said.

From Fox News • Jan. 14, 2022

“Unlike what we were saying even a year ago, we have learned how to live through these precedented times,” CTG’s Pressman says over the phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022

Doing evil for the sake of a prospective good is an immemorial custom, and well precedented.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various