Doing this will set a precedent.

In August 2018, education publisher Pearson reported that 59% of Gen Zers preferred using YouTube, compared with 55% of millennials, the generation that preceded them.

This is a bad precedent.

The commissioner said Italy is facing an emergency without precedent and everyone must do their utmost to ensure that “this emergency does not spread to those regions where so far it has been contained.”

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

The past participle must agree with the direct object if the direct object precedes it.

The Locomotive Act of 1865 required cars driving on public roads to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn.

Whenever there is a conflict between my work and my family, my family always takes precedence.

We are very cognizant of the precedent we are setting.

The precedent has been set.