pre-existing

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

existing previously or before something

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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Alfred Russel Wallace

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Marx shared with economists then and since the inability to make his concepts include innovational processes. It is one thing to spot a new product but quite another to observe the invisible new environments generated by the action of the product on a variety of pre-existing social grounds. Marshall McLuhan

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition! Cecile Richards

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress. Caleb Cushing

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. Caleb Cushing

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