Meaning and example
an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
The passage used "precedent" to mean an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.238 places precedent in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 99.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 99.2%
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
- Known by
- 99.2%
a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
- Known by
- 99.2%
characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Known by
- 99.2%
a collection of selected literary passages
- Known by
- 99.3%
any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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