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Example sentences for: antecedent

How can you use “antecedent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

antecedent, anterior, foregoing, former, past, precedent, previous, prior
Where private speech is involved, even Congress' antecedent funding decision cannot be aimed at the suppression of ideas thought inimical to the Government's own interest.
The vaquero was the early Hispano cowboy and the antecedent of the Hollywood cowboy.
Patients were eligible for this protocol if their leukemia was: 1) refractory to previous induction chemotherapy, 2) in first or subsequent relapse after initial complete remission following induction chemotherapy, 3) secondary to transformation from an antecedent hematologic disorder, or 4) secondary to previous exposure to cytotoxic agents.
(The British practice using a politically correct plural pronoun of reference for a singular antecedent is followed, explaining their job in the last example; the awkwardness could have been spared by a change to directors .)