Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase thing that came before.
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1. predecessor
2. forerunner
3. antecedent
4. precursor
5. ancestor
6. precessor
7. priorate
8. ordain
9. precedency
10. precedent
11. precedential
12. predestinate
13. prelation
14. priorship
15. beginning
16. begynne
17. destine
18. dst
19. fated
20. foreordination
21. inaugural
22. inition
23. persuasive precedent
24. prebend
25. precedence
26. precedented
27. predestinarian
28. predestination
29. predestine
30. predestiny
31. preordinance
32. preordination
33. priority
34. pris
35. antecedence
36. antecessor
37. antecursor

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