preceding
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The preceding girls game was not nearly as dramatic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Adding wartime decline to the preceding “SaaSpocalypse,” the shares have sunk 30% this year.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
After huge equity issuance in the years preceding, there was a tidal wave of IPO lock-up periods expiring that created a never-ending cascade of selling, Jones recalls.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Winston Churchill in 1938 charged Britain’s rulers with “an improvident stewardship” in the preceding years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
And if all the preceding seems remote from the present day, it need not be.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing preceding
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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Novel Study: The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 16–24
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Little Rock Girl 1957
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