Meaning & use
precedented
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Having happened or existed before; having a precedent, and therefore not unusual or unprecedented.
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Analysts argued the market crash was actually precedented, pointing to similar drops decades earlier.
Unlike the crisis officials called unprecedented, historians found it was fairly precedented.
A note on using this word
This is a rare back-formation from "unprecedented," created by dropping the negative prefix; it's mostly used rhetorically to push back against claims that something is entirely new.
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