antecedents
Britishplural noun
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ancestry
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a person's past history
Example Sentences
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While going rather easy on King George, Ms. Worsley is dismayed by the strategy of her antecedents, whose tactics often seemed calculated to fan the sputtering flames of rebellion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
There are antecedents for what Universal is attempting.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025
“If I do something that shocks me or that I’m not proud of, I’m able to frame that behaviorally and sort of understand the antecedents, the behavior itself and then the consequence,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
After all, machines that could play decent games of chess did not appear until the antecedents of IBM's Deep Blue in the late 20th century.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents, which weren't even faintly true.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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