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What does pre-existing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of pre-exist
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As we discover near the film's conclusion, he has apparently developed an ability to create the robots based on pre-existing human forms.
Some 20 years later, in a famous aphorism Omnis cellula e cellula, Rudolf Virchow annunciated that all cells arise only from pre-existing cells.
Radiographs may show pre-existing degenerative changes or a slight flattening of the lordotic curvature of the neck.
In this function it is a significant incremental improvement to pre-existing telegraphy and telephony.
The extent of thickening did not correlate with the amount of inflammation, suggesting a pre-existing condition.
It's also a departure, his first period piece and his first film adapted from pre-existing material.

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