adjective. Said, written, or encountered just before; previous.

noun. The act of preceding, going before, or leading the way.

Preceding; going before, in time or place or in a series; antecedent: as, a foregoing clause in a writing.

Synonyms See previous.

adjective. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

verb. Present participle of forego.

adjective. especially of writing or speech; going before

"But in the real world, instances don't yield general truths with anything like the haste of a typical Myers paragraph (of which the foregoing is a parody)."

subsequent  

preceding  

Boeing  bestowing  blowing  bowing  crowing  

above  aforegoing  aforementioned  aforenamed  aforesaid  

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