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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Byrds are seen as an antecedent of bands like R.E.M.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Education business partnerships, though recent in their current form, have antecedents which it would be foolish to ignore.
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Once the antecedents to their overdrinking are established, clients can begin to make systematic changes in these situational factors.
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There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents.