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Example sentences for: preceded

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Virtually all ambitious trade hardcover books are preceded by an edition of 100 to 200 flimsy "galley proofs."
Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.
I am interested in meaning, which is treated as badly by Chomsky and his followers as it was by the structuralists who preceded them.
In an age when even the most seemingly spontaneous public events are in fact preceded by stacks of memos and weeks of meetings, extemporaneous entertainment like this is no mean feat.
Pronunciations that are considered incorrect (like “fith’ for fifth ) are preceded by an exclamation point in a triangle; (!) indicates that a pronunciation so marked is different from what the spelling might lead one to expect (as in Beaulieu `bju\?