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prior
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[ adjective ] earlier in time
Synonyms Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami_Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two game weekend series with the New_York Yankees . Prior to the featured race , the stewards announced that apprentice James_P._Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)It should be possible to free carbon_tetrachloride of any interfering substances by the usual purification methods followed by prechlorination prior to addition of radioactive chlorine . (M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)This was particularly noticeable in group A and group B sera , in which cases activity in Regions 1 and 2 was usually not detectable without prior concentration and occasionally could not be detected at_all . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 5297
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[ noun ] (religion) the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
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