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was precedent
noun
An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
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There was precedent for this.
There was precedent for Musharraf's abrupt rehabilitation.
There was precedent for such optimism.
The Agent Orange case was precedent setting.
After all, there was precedent for that sort of thing around here.
There was precedent from former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's era to deploy the Army.
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First is precedent.
There is precedent here.
There's precedent.
Yet there is precedent.
There is precedent for this.
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