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Five vehicles were driven past the ground prior to kick-off, carrying electronic billboards showing messages opposing antisemitism.
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Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Changes that impact employee functions or operations should be discussed prior to implementation, Styles said.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
That’s down from more than 90% just prior to the most recent interest rate cut.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
After trading both Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams on Tuesday prior to the NFL trade deadline, the remainder of the 2025 season looks incredibly bleak for the New York Jets on paper.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Changes that impact employee functions or operations should be discussed prior to implementation, Styles said.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
That’s down from more than 90% just prior to the most recent interest rate cut.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
After trading both Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams on Tuesday prior to the NFL trade deadline, the remainder of the 2025 season looks incredibly bleak for the New York Jets on paper.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prior to
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Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have captured rare footage that shows clutches of the freeloading fish peeling away from their host in what looks like a high-speed game of chicken, just moments before the whale breaches.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Soika, a surgeon, unsuccessfully tried to book a rental car to get to Utah for a weekend trip before settling on an option that seemed straight out of Hollywood.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
Preposition
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Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 July 2025
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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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The area increased to 80% by 2018, according to state media, after numerous buildings and city walls were restored, and 135 temporary structures inside the compound were torn down.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The researchers learned that people who ate very similarly to the portfolio diet had a 14% lower risk of developing coronary heart disease or stroke than people who ate less similarly to the diet.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Prior to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prior%20to. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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