Synonym: antecedent, past, preceding, retiring. Similar words: precede, precedent, ceding, unprecedented, recede, precept, speeding, recording. Meaning: [prɪ'sɪːdɪŋ] adj. 1. existing or coming before 2. preceding in time or order 3. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office.
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31. During preceding periods, actions of the child were always dependent on the immediate actions in the environment.
32. In general, don't do a hard run on either of the two preceding days or the day after a race.
33. Seen in comparison with the preceding axial age, the Hellenistic age is tame and conservative.
34. In the preceding example, by seeing p1, p2, and p3 the reader gets a good overview of hypertext.
35. He had been arrested at least fifteen times in the preceding five years.
36. A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70-80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution.
37. The idea of a holiday in the north-west of the Iberian peninsula had developed in the preceding six months.
38. I hope that I have made the merits of the New Criticism sufficiently clear in the preceding pages.
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39. Yet in the days immediately preceding, there still is the feeling that the crowd has not yet arrived.
40. Walking down to the newsagent's in the village I ran through the events of the preceding evening again.
41. But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis.
42. Could the kinds of experience we have described in the preceding chapters be systematically developed?
43. The preceding discussion suggests that the operation of Keynesian fiscal policy should pose few problems.
44. The leaves are arranged so that each pair is situated perpendicular to the axis of the preceding leaves.
45. It'd been a long day and the preceding nights had been nightmarish - literally.
46. A review of her temperature chart showed a gradual increase over the preceding eight hours.
47. Furthermore, food prices could sharply distinguish the standard of living in one year from both the preceding one and the next.
48. The start string is automatically populated with any alphanumeric characters preceding the wild characters.
49. Unlike the preceding species this plant is much more manageable as it is less vigorous.
50. The orientations of the political culture identified in the preceding chapter remain.
51. What had really counted to Eva was the covenant service preceding the commissioning.
52. We can return to these questions now, and draw together the strands of the preceding argument.
53. The preceding decades has not witnessed governments unresponsive to electoral expectations and the nation's problems.
54. This approach does not solve the problem of continuity that depends on more than the single preceding node.
55. The preceding chapters have outlined many of the likely areas of difficulty.
56. In the preceding section of the poem, Whitman is talking about how important it is to live in the present.
57. Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century.
58. It differs from the preceding variety in that the emersed leaves are pointed at the apex and are generally larger.
59. Indeed in 1964 it briefly entertained hopes that Labour might prove more helpful over nuclear policy than the preceding government.
60. A representation of the superficial aspects of the immediately preceding text is also used in the interpretation of both kinds of anaphors.
More similar words: precede, precedent, ceding, unprecedented, recede, precept, speeding, recording, pretending, secede, antecedent, recent, recess, receive, recently, receiver, recessive, reception, receptive, recession, engaged in, succeed in, predict, be absorbed in, precise, precinct, predicate, precious, prediction, predispose.