beforehand

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When Schilling revealed her illness in 2023, she said she developed severe stomach cramps a few months beforehand and was initially told she had constipation.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

“If people knew beforehand, they would’ve parked their cars here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

That estimate relied on the assumption that sediment built up at roughly the same rate after the extinction as it did beforehand.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

“The one pressure we couldn’t take away was the context for these individuals of what might have been said to them beforehand, what pressures they might have felt with their own family members.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

If we wish on Earth to examine samples of Martian soil for microbes, we must, of course, not sterilize the samples beforehand.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan