precedents

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These events stand out because they have no comparable dynamic precedents, highlighting how unusual current conditions have become.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

There are few precedents anywhere in the world, let alone in a democracy, of displaying sitting leaders' pictures in passports, and Trump would be the first sitting US president featured in Americans' travel documents.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

At the time, precedents suggested such information was a business record of the phone carrier, not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The decision also drops at a moment when more than a dozen other states are weighing their own mask laws — laws that could create a tangle of dueling precedents across the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

And in fact, there are precedents for such a case, including one in which a woman successfully had her father’s DNA removed from a database in Iceland.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot