adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediately before/preceding sth
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I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash.
the previous/preceding chapter
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The method is described in the previous chapter.
the previous/preceding generation
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He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
the previous/preceding month (= the month before )
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Sales were lower than in the previous month.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had been arrested at least fifteen times in the preceding five years.
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In the preceding section of the poem, Whitman is talking about how important it is to live in the present.
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The preceding chapters have described several key events in recent French history.
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The company made more profit in that one month than it made in the whole of the preceding year.
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This seems to contradict the argument in the preceding paragraph.