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Example sentences for: antecedent

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Chekhov's major plays-- Uncle Vanya , The Seagull , Three Sisters , and The Cherry Orchard --have links with his antecedent stories, as well as with events in his life.
L ewis Carroll: The indispensable guides to contemporary politics are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , which happens to be where Clinton's most direct literary antecedent appears.
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.
Allin and the Murder Junkies as an influence/antecedent.
(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 .)