0 past participle, past simple of pre-exist
Even if these techniques pre-existed, it was their first utilisation within a compositional context.
This quartet reveals new insights with every repeat listening, while sounding as if it has somehow pre-existed (a quality it seems to share with many earlier masterpieces).
Matter pre-existed even the creation of our universe; nothing can be created from nothing.
Sometimes anxiety pre-existed alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence, but the dependence was acting to keep the anxiety disorders going and often progressively making them worse.
I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed.
Schumpeter argued that imperialism was not a necessary jump-start for capitalism, nor is it needed to bolster capitalism, because imperialism pre-existed capitalism.
Sometimes anxiety disorders pre-existed alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence but the alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence often act to keep the anxiety disorders going and often progressively making them worse.
Sometimes anxiety pre-existed alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence but the alcohol or benzodiazepine dependence act to keep the anxiety disorders going and often progressively making them worse.