beforehand
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"The storms that aligned already looked different about a day beforehand," said Fischer, who also is a core faculty member of the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Elsewhere in the city, a front-desk staffer at a health clinic said power outages occurred two to three times a week, usually announced beforehand.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 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
He and his friend had gone into Tunduma on 1 April to meet a client about a car sale and decided to eat lunch beforehand.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Following the outcry over the Lusitania, Germany imposed strict limitations on submarine operations, pledging to warn those on board a vessel about to be attacked so they could abandon ship beforehand.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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