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Example sentences from the Web for antecedentsThe SUVs, coupes, and sedans that populate dealer showrooms are much greener than their antecedents. Farewell to the Gas Station: The Demise of a Car-Culture Icon|Daniel Gross|May 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST These examples of art bleeding into marketing have antecedents, of course. Art and High Commerce|Anthony Haden-Guest|December 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST He paid cash for it, so his references and his antecedents were not investigated at the time. On Secret Service|William Nelson Taft Also my inbred, almost instinctive curiosity as to the purposes and antecedents of lurking folk of all kinds, pricked me. The Dew of Their Youth|S. R. Crockett
When one's antecedents have not been of a licit character, one is predisposed to make extraordinary excuses for others. The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin|Emilia Pardo Bazn What did he know of the woman, of her antecedents and circumstances? The Destroying Angel|Louis Joseph Vance Few towns now standing have a right to be more proud of their antecedents than Boston. North America, Volume I (of 2)|Anthony Trollope
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pl nancestry a person's past history Words nearby antecedentsantebellum, antecede, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, antecedents, antecessor, antechamber, antechapel, antechoir, ante-Christum Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to antecedentsancestor, ancestry, blood, descent, extraction, genealogy, line, progenitor, stock, antecessor, forebears, primogenitor |