Preceded can be categorized as a verb.
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| precede - furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" | ||
| precede - move ahead (of others) in time or space | ||
| precede - be the predecessor of; "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands" | ||
| precede - come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" | ||
| precede - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" |
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| 1. | verb | Kumaratunga's India tour preceded a three-day visit to Sri Lanka by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen in a new bid to revive the peace talks that were supposed to follow a ceasefire that Oslo successfully brokered in February 2002. | |
| 2. | verb | He preceded to grab the slice off the countertop and throw it into the trash while yelling at me saying, "you do not order what you do not know about" and "you don't know how pizza is made". | |
| 3. | verb | The rain was preceded by wind. | |
| 4. | verb | It is said that the Vikings preceded Columbus in discovering America. | |
| 5. | verb | "H" is not pronounced in Spanish unless it is preceded by "c." | |
| 6. | verb | And, without waiting for an answer, she left the apartment, preceded by her friend Adele. | |
| 7. | verb | Nothing happens unless it is preceded by a dream. | |
| 8. | verb | In politics, one is preceded by imbeciles and replaced by morons. | |
| 9. | verb | Nothing happens unless preceded by a dream. | |
| 10. | verb | The Locomotive Act of 1865 required cars driving on public roads to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. | |
| 11. | verb | No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals. | |
| 12. | verb | In August 2018, education publisher Pearson reported that 59% of Gen Zers preferred using YouTube, compared with 55% of millennials, the generation that preceded them. | |
| 13. | verb | 'That' subclauses are sometimes preceded by commas. | |
| 14. | verb | Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. | |
| 15. | verb | A rich life is always preceded by disaster. |
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| Kumaratunga's India tour preceded a three-day visit to Sri Lanka by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen in a new bid to revive the peace talks that were supposed to follow a ceasefire that Oslo successfully brokered in February 2002. |
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| He preceded to grab the slice off the countertop and throw it into the trash while yelling at me saying, "you do not order what you do not know about" and "you don't know how pizza is made". |
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| The rain was preceded by wind. | |
| It is said that the Vikings preceded Columbus in discovering America. | |
| "H" is not pronounced in Spanish unless it is preceded by "c." | |
| And, without waiting for an answer, she left the apartment, preceded by her friend Adele. | |
| Nothing happens unless it is preceded by a dream. | |
| In politics, one is preceded by imbeciles and replaced by morons. | |
| Nothing happens unless preceded by a dream. | |
| The Locomotive Act of 1865 required cars driving on public roads to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn. | |
| No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals. | |
| In August 2018, education publisher Pearson reported that 59% of Gen Zers preferred using YouTube, compared with 55% of millennials, the generation that preceded them. | |
| 'That' subclauses are sometimes preceded by commas. | |
| Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. | |
| A rich life is always preceded by disaster. | |