Examples of previous to in a Sentence
his passport arrived just previous to his trip
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Over the three seasons previous to 2025-26, the two men played 1,343 minutes together at five-on-five, scoring 4.51 goals per 60 with a 62 percent goal share.
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Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Kent, originally from Sutton, graduated from the State Police Academy in 2022 and did not have a disciplinary record previous to this incident, the Herald previously reported.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 July 2025
Researchers tested this process, known as photothermal catalysis, in the laboratory using a simulant based on samples of lunar regolith returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission (the lunar samples are far too previous to destroy in such experiments, which is why a simulant is used instead).
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 July 2025
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Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Kent, originally from Sutton, graduated from the State Police Academy in 2022 and did not have a disciplinary record previous to this incident, the Herald previously reported.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 July 2025
Researchers tested this process, known as photothermal catalysis, in the laboratory using a simulant based on samples of lunar regolith returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission (the lunar samples are far too previous to destroy in such experiments, which is why a simulant is used instead).
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 July 2025
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“Previous to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/previous%20to. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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