What does come before mean?

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come be·fore

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. precede, come beforeverb

    be the predecessor of

    "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"

Wiktionary

  1. come beforeverb

    To appear publicly in front of someone superior.

  2. come beforeverb

    to be of greater importance (than)

  3. come beforeverb

    to be judged, decided or discussed by authority.

  4. come beforeverb

    To precede.

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  1. come before

    "Come before" is a phrasal verb or idiom which generally means to precede in time, order, or position. It refers to something or someone that exists or happens earlier or in front of something or someone else. It can also mean to be presented or considered by a person or group, such as a court or committee.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of come before in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of come before in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of come before in a Sentence

  1. Neil Gorsuch:

    Senator, he has no idea how I’d rule in that case and, senator, I’m not going to say anything here that’s going to give anybody any idea how I’d rule in any case like that that could come before the Supreme Court or my court on the 10th Circuit, it would be grossly improper of a judge to do that. It would be a violation of the separation of powers and judicial independence if someone sitting at this table, in order to get confirmed, had to make promises or commitments about how they’d rule in a case that’s currently pending and likely to make its way to the Supreme Court.

  2. Getty Images:

    Senator, I believe that we have criminal laws, criminal laws that are created by policy-making bodies like this one, we have not only criminal laws, but we have a criminal process by which people come before the court to be held accountable if they are charged with a crime.

  3. Robert Menendez:

    Whenever I pursued [ the subject ], either in individual conversation or in questions before the full committee, no one alluded that there were any conversations going on with the Castro regime, one would begin to wonder to what degree State Department was engaged in all this. Certainly, as someone who is going to continue to have a leadership role on the committee on Senate Foreign Relations, it's going to create a doubt in my mind when State Department witnesses come before the committee. Are State Department witnesses either telling us the entire truth, or are State Department witnesses just shunned out of the process by White House ? Either way, it's going to create some real concerns( over) the veracity of what we're hearing in testimony, as we move forward.

  4. Dianne Feinstein:

    Show some heart, wait until Trump Ford feels that she can come before Judiciary Committee.

  5. Cory Booker:

    What I want right now is for us to when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh... to wait until this Mueller probe is done, no American citizen should be able to choose the person who will be judging them when they are subject to a criminal investigation should those matters come before that judge.

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