preceding
Example Sentences
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In the months preceding its filing, Saks executives reached out to Amazon about providing financing or even buying the company outright, according to one of the people.
That begins with the T20 World Cup and a preceding white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, which starts in just two weeks' time.
From BBC
Tweedy, Browne provided a list of companies whose stocks were trading at trailing price/earnings ratios above 40 and that had been buying back shares over the preceding 12 months.
From MarketWatch
In a forthcoming academic paper, Mr. Strain and Jeffrey Clemens analyze changes to the minimum wage in the decade preceding the Covid pandemic.
This may have been a classic “buy the rumor, sell the news” moment, as the price had doubled over the preceding days on media reports that rescheduling was imminent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
