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US
/ˈpɹiɪɡˈzɪst/
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VERB
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exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time
Did this condition pre-exist?
How To Use preexist In A Sentence
- For apparel makers without a preexisting mail order sales channel, e-commerce fulfillment is a brave new world.
- It is the place in which we come closest, in the Pauline corpus, to the idea of preexistence and incarnation. Archive 2008-12-14
- Davies says of all the ideas he reviews: "In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate: a unique universe that just happens to permit life by a fluke; a stupendous number of alternative parallel universes that exist for no reason; a preexisting God who is somehow self-explanatory; or a self-creating, self-explaining self-understanding unioverse-with-observers, entailing backward causation and teleology." page 259. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
- Mr. DEACON: I just wanted a word that had no preexistent meaning, but had like, a low sort of percussive type tone. On Tour With Dan Deacon And His Veggie Oil Van
- But stop talking about rights that preexist the Constitution. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense?
- In doing so, He was not only claiming to be the preexistent Sovereign of the universe but prophesying that He would vindicate His claim by judging the very court that was now condemning Him. Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity
- Some of the preexisting protein translocation apparatus of the endosymbiont appears to have been commandeered, including molecular chaperones, the signal peptidase, and some components of the protein-targeting machinery. 3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb
- Slots for the "talented" preexist the people who fill them. John O'Kane: The Filter Up Effect
- Kenotic theology is a theology that focuses on the person of Christ in terms of some form of self - limitation by the preexistent Son in his becoming man.
- In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital. Conservative blogs--military intervention needed?