How to Use ahead of one's/its time in a Sentence

ahead of one's/its time

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  • The storyline with her mental health struggles was a bit ahead of its time.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • No movie is ahead of its time, only ahead of popular acceptance.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 July 2021
  • The common thread between these failures, at least how they’re spun, is that Dyson was too ahead of its time.
    — Alexis Ong, The Verge, 23 May 2023
  • To watch that scene in 2023 is to encounter a pop-culture moment that feels both trapped in and ahead of its time.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • Like the days that came immediately before it, Saturday was ahead of its time in its warmth.
    — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Her idea to develop healthy snacks that were sugar-, flour- and dairy-free was ahead of its time in 2015, Raiola said.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Babies Hospital, where Dorothy Andersen worked, was well ahead of its time.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The gradient color, a feature of the original dial, was ahead of its time, as was the 14-sided bezel.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Sober himself for going on 10 years, he was inspired to launch The Mocktail Project a bit ahead of its time.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2023
  • On top of being ahead of its time, the sketch comedy show was home to plenty of recognizable faces and even a few future A-listers!
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Not a single unit of the device was ever sold, but the concept was ahead of its time and, perhaps, foreshadowed some of the goofier products on the market today.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • Each brought something unique and ahead of its time, all presented with Lynch’s distinctive sensibility.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Valve Half-Life is a legendary game, a title that was ahead of its time in its storytelling, mechanics, and technology.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But the reality is that amateur radio, full of cutting-edge technology and involving a high level of expertise, has always been ahead of its time.
    — Chase Brush, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The team also notes that this technology may be a bit ahead of its time, as the infrastructure needed to produce enough doses to sterilize millions of cats with gene therapy has yet to be built.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 June 2023
  • The reality is that amateur radio, full of cutting-edge technology and involving a high level of expertise, has always been ahead of its time.
    — Chase Brush, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The material itself is plenty discomforting on its own—and rather ahead of its time in its notions about overdue reckoning and accountability.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The recursive adultery plot feels like a joke about the expectations placed on the complex, theory-heavy systems novel, which critics so often perceive as predictive, ahead of its time, or godlike in its memory of things past.
    — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
  • This 1911 novel is both a product of its historical moment and, in its intuitive psychological understanding of human development, ahead of its time.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • As with Green’s 2001 American enthusiasm, Patriot Academy arrived ahead of its time.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023

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