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Meanings of precedented in English

Having or supported or justified by a precedent.

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Examples for "unprecedented"
Examples for "unprecedented"
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This year has seen an unprecedented number of migrants arriving in Europe.
BBC
2
The issue has prompted unprecedented demonstrations across New Caledonia in recent years.
Radio NZ
3
At the moment, we simply don't know because the problem is unprecedented.
News.com.au
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COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented threat to global public health and economies.
Pubmed
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The real issue was that there was an unprecedented global financial crisis.
The Guardian
Usage of precedented in English
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As I read somewhere yesterday, you would miss the precedented times.
Independent.ie
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Of course, we must avoid any return to primogeniture-orfirstborn inheritance-nomatter how precedented!
Existence
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John Bruton had scaled on precedented heights of popularity.
The Irish Times
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And yet, as this litany suggests, Trump's substantive betrayals of democratic ideals are far more precedented than his rhetorical ones.
NY Magazine
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We concluded dinner would be called for, it not being Very precedented for ladies to wait for gentlemen:-nosuch thing.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
Precedented through the time