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The phrase "precedent of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used in a legal context and means "an example or statement that is used to justify or support a particular legal action or decision". For example: The court used the precedent of a previous case to decide the outcome of the trial.
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There was a precedent of sorts.
Consider the precedent of cellular phones.
Shoreham is, though, a precedent of sorts.
Set the precedent of kissing the Bible.
There is a precedent of sorts.
" Foster's study does have a precedent — of a sort.
He points to the precedent of the Josephson-junction circuit.
Yet life insurance is a precedent of sorts.
There is precedent of sorts for such a move.
"It had upheld the precedent of not judging Mexicans overseas.
There is a troubling precedent of legal interference in Paraguay.
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