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- verb   Alternative spelling of 
preexist . 
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Examples
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First, individual rights pre-exist the establishment of any government and are thus "unalienable."
Obama's Mandate Vs. The Founders' Matt Kibbe 2011
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Moreover, since the cancers might pre-exist, hormone therapy, by accelerating them, could actually have a
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Moreover, since the cancers might pre-exist, hormone therapy, by accelerating them, could actually have a
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This seems much more mythical to me, unless, of course, you think Jesus did pre-exist the world, but that would be thinking like a Young Earth Creationist.
Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010
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You've demonstrated zero familiarity with the genre and you've ignored the multiple examples of wizard schools and wizard trappings that pre-exist Willy that have been pointed out repeatedly.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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Moreover, since the cancers might pre-exist, hormone therapy, by accelerating them, could actually have a
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This "naturalist fallacy," as Charles Taylor calls it, thus dismisses frameworks as things we invent, not answers to questions which inescapably pre-exist for us independent of our answer or inability to answer.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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I'm a great believer in Emerson's maxim "the ends pre-exist in the means".
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Regarding character defects, Rabbi Bleich claims that such defects may well have developed only after a marriage (and perhaps as a result of marital discord), and that there is a halakhic presumption that such flaws did not pre-exist their appearance.
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But the self towards which our loves lead does not pre-exist.
Robert Fuller: What Shall I Do with the Rest of My Life? 2009
 
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