anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
They are arranged in the order in which they are expressed, from anterior to posterior.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
The book lung looks like a book with many pages and is located just anterior to a spiracle in the ventral abdomen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The bladder lies anterior to the uterus in females, posterior to the pubic bone and anterior to the rectum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Both metals, as shown by the table, have been concurrently used as money for thousands of years—not only since the dawn of history, but from a period anterior to any historical records.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
