eve
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the year’s most consequential development came on the eve of the NeurIPS conference, when Google released a version of its Gemini large language model that soared up the industry’s closely watched leaderboards.
On the eve of the 1976 election, President Gerald Ford wanted to hold a motorcade parade in Grand Rapids, where he grew up.
On the eve of the Civil War, the Columbian Register lamented the growing likelihood of “the stars of our political firmament” being “torn from their orbits, and plunging madly about, or tilting one the other.”
Yet on the eve of those Games, James was ready to pass all that up.
From Los Angeles Times
Don't forget how he also had the vice-captaincy taken from him on the eve of the Ashes.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
