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Precedence vs. Precedents
Precedence
/ˈpresədəns/Examples:
Ensure your tasks are in an order of precedence.Safety should always take precedence over speed.In some cultures, elders hold social precedence.
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Precedents
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Historical precedents guide current legal decisions.The new policy sets important precedents for future cases.Cultural precedents influence modern social norms.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Precedence sounds like proceed which means to go ahead, and it's about order or priority.
- Precedents has an e like evidence and refers to a previous case or law used as an example.
- Remember that precedence is like president, who sets the order for others.
- The word precedents ends in ts which might remind you of courts where legal decisions are made.
- While precedence is about importance in sequence, precedents are about past examples.
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