The word "precede" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you want to refer to something that comes before something else in time or order. Example sentence: The introduction preceded the main section of the presentation.
To precede the section concerned with the wholly disarming George, the 21st-century 15-year-old, Wood made an image of a CCTV camera.
Downton, in his now defunct role, would have given the final sign-off for these two warm-up games which precede the three-Test series against West Indies.
Steven Osborne Birmingham Conservatoire, Wed Beethoven's Op 119 Bagatelles and Waldstein Sonata precede a selection of Rachmaninov's Preludes.
THE delightful (though small) plates of tapas that often accompany an evening drink in Spain can, if eaten with gusto, end up replacing the meal they were meant to precede.
In the process he grew close to his opposite number, Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei), and became expert in the quirks, quibbles and humour that precede a crucial decision.
The ZEW tends to precede changes in economic activity by around six months.Japan's economy is technically back in recession.
But today, in contrast to the 1950s, marriage is bound up with another bourgeois institution: property.In China mortgages often precede marriages.
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