beforehand
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If you’re going to charge a whopping $60 to cook for people, you’d better tell them beforehand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Spanish government on Tuesday declassified intelligence reports about July's migrant surge into Ceuta in a bid to quell doubts about what it knew beforehand and Morocco's potential role.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Festival director Julie Huntsinger offered only a few clues beforehand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Roads were often closed during a disaster, which was why his father liked to be at ground zero beforehand.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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