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- noun A
determinant of what will follow.
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Examples
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Since when was 'supporting the underdog' the predeterminant of anyone's foreign policy - let alone Britain's?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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So, again gender and what a person does sexually is not some predeterminant of anyone's political views.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Strongly Denounces Antigay Gospel Singer 2009
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So, again gender and what a person does sexually is not some predeterminant of anyone's political views.
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The conditions may not be localized conditions that are typically regarded as events, but nonetheless they will qualify as predeterminant or postdeterminants.
My Shasta Daisy 2009
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e has many postdeterminants and few predeterminants, where a predeterminant or postdeterminant of an event is a set of conditions that are jointly sufficient, given the laws of nature, for the occurrence of the event.
My Shasta Daisy 2009
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