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Example sentences for: antecedents

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Like their '30s antecedents, the brothers rely on B-grade genre pics to generate the revenues to pay for artier films.
But Manson is more horrible, more crude, more theatrical, and more anti-social than any of its antecedents.
Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.
Although most loanwords differ in form somewhat from their Hindi antecedents, the changes are largely minor orthographic ones, as the substitution of ch, gh , and sh for an original c, g , or s , etc.
The elegant simplicity of the Parliament building, graceful façade of the University, and almost ‘Rococo-esque’ decoration on the Academy all hark back to ancient antecedents.