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The word that came before this one, doing its quiet front-row work.
means Coming before something else in time, order, or position.
from From Latin praecedere, to go before — prae (before) plus cedere (to go), the same root that gave us procession and ancestor.
Legal favoriteContracts lean on it to dodge restating clauses.
Quiet twinMeans the same as preceding's cousin, prior.
Direction mattersPreceding looks back; following looks ahead.