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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
preexist .
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Examples
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No continues effusive representative preexisted for the reason of illness, therein the merit of immediate disorder is negated.
Gov Deval Patrick (D, MA) just gave the GOP three more House seats. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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It is possible the toponym preexisted everything else, so we have Cyprus the place naming both the metal mined there and the tree grown there.
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Many of these organizations preexisted the Tea Party movement -- many of them go all the way back to the Perot days.
Sarah van Gelder: Van Jones: Want Jobs? Rebuild the Dream Sarah van Gelder 2011
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I was aware that the Ediacara biota preexisted the Cambrian Explosion.
Continuation… 2008
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It is possible the toponym preexisted everything else, so we have Cyprus the place naming both the metal mined there and the tree grown there.
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That strikes me as saying something quite different than, e.g., because this right preexisted the Constitution, it cannot be infringed, whether or not we have a textual prohibition on its infringement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Sotomayor and the Second Amendment: 2009
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The national government preexisted the Constitution.
Balkinization 2006
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They all preexisted in some form, and somewhat are the reincarnations.
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You see, naturally this sphere, this plane of existence, far preexisted human beings.
Darkness of the Light David_Peter 2007
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Marriage is the only order that is superlapsarian which means that it preexisted the fall and continues with us today Adam & Eve were married.
Too sad to watch? Ann Althouse 2007
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