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priors

noun as in predecessor

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Your mileage may vary, depending on your ideological priors.

We should all be revising our priors about how much health insurance--or at least Medicaid--really promotes health.

Because models of paternity uncertainty are important priors in shaping our view of the course of human evolutionary history.

They didn't do this crime, but there are the three same priors lingering in the air.

They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house.

Albatrosses followed in our wake, accompanied by their smaller satellites—Cape hens, priors, Lesson's and Wilson petrels.

Thus the monastery grew through successive priors, till it was one of the largest religious houses in London.

The two Franciscan stalwarts remained in the Priors' chapel.

The Priors folk will then go apart and judge the accused, a few of the hundredors going with them to act as assessors.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to priors, such as: ancestor, forebear, antecedent, forerunner, former, and precursor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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