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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a preexisting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that already exists before a certain point in time or before a specific event.
Example: "The project was delayed due to a preexisting condition that had not been addressed."
Alternatives: "an existing" or "a prior".
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Nevertheless, each year a few spots are available to scholars without a preexisting connection to Cornell.
In El Salvador in the 1980s they were enmeshed in a preexisting struggle against leftist guerrillas.
(2) Particles were adsorbed to a preexisting support film.
A preexisting people, the preamble's "we the people," created the Constitution.
This is considered to represent a preexisting fault formed before subduction began.
If someone is uninsured, the insurer can exclude covering a preexisting condition for 18 months.
Often there is a preexisting domestic connection, as in the case of Harry Osborn.
Some have also found chronic pain to be a preexisting condition causing a person's sleep troubles.
And, when it does, it's due to a preexisting heart condition or some other medical anomaly.
Exacerbation of a preexisting epidemiologic situation is quite likely.
Is selective memory loss a preexisting condition?
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