PREEXISTED Synonyms: 8 Similar and Opposite Words

preexisted

verb

past tense of preexist

as in preceded

to go or come before in time an advanced Mesoamerican civilization whose apex and collapse preexisted the arrival of Europeans by hundreds of years

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The physicists used that data to reconstruct the angles at which electrons and muons were emitted to infer the spins of the original Z bosons that preceded them.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
Students who spoke with KTLA-TV said a fight in a classroom preceded the fatal fall.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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