prior
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Hormuz is now closing in on Warsh’s priors.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
The lessons you draw vary according to your priors.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
You are seeing the world through different priors.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2025
“I’ve had priors, this can’t happen to me,” Pearce said, according to Ansbach.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2025
The Scots had encamped at Beaurepaire or Bearpark, where a few ruins mark the site of the county residence of the priors of Durham, which had suffered from previous invaders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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