How to Use preexist in a Sentence

preexist

verb
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  • That's on top of the preexisting damages from 12 years of war.
    — Abby Sewell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • People with preexisting heart and lung conditions are most at risk when the air gets thick and unhealthy.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The death toll remains at four, all of whom people who were in their 70s or 80s with preexisting conditions.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In some ways, the credit crunch would just amplify a preexisting trend.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Heard was also dating a man whose fame preexisted her birth.
    — Vanessa Chow, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The new fund updates a preexisting line of credit and will span five years, the company announced Tuesday.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Sharief said the men were over the age of 70 -- two had been diagnosed with Covid-19, one suffered a heart attack and another succumbed to a preexisting illness.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • While Guallpa said the new laws were a promising first step, the city does not currently have a plan to transition preexisting bikes to safer batteries.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Tuchman has extended his preexisting overall deal with MGM, which serves as the studio on the series.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Fifteen healthy adults agreed to have their guts and stool probed for preexisting microbes before entering the trial.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018
  • The first known death from the coronavirus outside of China was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who died in the Philippines and was thought to have had other preexisting health conditions.
    — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Smart Downloads will draw the first 100 tracks from the preexisting Offline Mixtape, a playlist based on your listening history.
    — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 27 June 2019
  • That way, more-deserving West players aren’t snubbed for less-deserving East players, a chronic and preexisting problem made worse by James’s move to the West.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • If these positions allow Leos to use their voices (roars?) to incite change and break new ground in preexisting industries, all the better.
    — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
  • The Verge found that the track is composed of multiple preexisting elements, with the primary new addition being the Drake voice.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the city’s preexisting structures will be used for this future Summer Olympics, with some public transportation improvements in sight to help bolster access to the venues.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Now, the next Q-Anon will just be chatbot output that is explicitly designed to cater to the preexisting biases and prejudices of the user.
    — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • During the 2003 heat wave in Europe, the elderly comprised the largest share of the casualties, many with preexisting health conditions.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • Crucially, this figure represents the amount of money the U.S. government can borrow to pay back preexisting loans — not take out new ones.
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 11 May 2023
  • But my issue is with having to pay for preexisting conditions.
    — Connor Sheets | Csheets@al.com, al, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The man had a preexisting heart condition and was hospitalized in Casa Grande soon after agents took him into custody.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
  • High-risk visitors, such as the elderly and others with preexisting conditions, are asked to take extra care at parks.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Obamacare is a disaster and costs way too much, but keeping preexisting provisions should be a part of any healthcare reform.
    — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
  • Many are relatively young, in their 40s and 50s, and have minimal, if any, preexisting conditions in their charts.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The website is the first of its kind, filtering through preexisting city infrastructure and programs that aid women and curating them all in one place for easy access.
    — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 16 May 2018
  • But as with much other protest music of late, social alienation blurs with preexisting personal demons.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 June 2018
  • The elephant was suffering from preexisting serious ailments before falling in a pond last week, Four Paws said in a statement.
    — Alex Hardie, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Few of these films following decades after the original title totally bomb at the box office, helped by preexisting fan bases loyal to the franchise.
    — Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Four days of flying can’t hope to settle the matter of which aircraft is better—but is enough time to construct an argument to justify preexisting beliefs.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2018
  • Most Democrats campaigned on protecting preexisting conditions, but the ACA has already done that.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018

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