ADJECTIVE
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existing previously or before something
variations on pre-existent musical themes
How To Use pre-existing In A Sentence
- With this discharge - which occurs either as a humoral emission or a thermal one (horripilation, shivering) - pre-existing accruals of emotions are also eliminated.
- They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
- In 1969, U-Roy cut the first records in the ‘DJ style’, rapping or toasting over pre-existing instrumental tracks.
- About half of malignant skin melanomas arise from pre-existing moles.
- She has not gained insight into her pre-existing persecutory beliefs.
- The Ferry Laws, the legislation of 1886 affecting teachers, the Law of Associations in 1901, and ultimately the Law of 1904, excluding religious from teaching, laicized a pre-existing educational system.
- But now we know that meaningless isochrons can be ‘inherited’ from pre-existing rocks.
- Your insurer would have to "enroll" enough "healthy" people to offset the added costs of covering those with pre-existing conditions. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- Pre-existing malnutrition has been shown to be a major clinical problem in surgical patients.
- All across the country, there are pre-existing rivalries between teams and cities that are ripe for promotional exploitation.