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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"

Funny, you're right, precipitate does mean "cause" rather than "precede". Thing is, I've heard it used by others as a synonym for "preceded" so often that I assumed it meant that.

Presage sounds too rare and fancy a word to use, and precede isn't strong enough because it doesn't necessarily indicate a connection. Any other words I could have used in that situation?
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Tony Fabris