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eve

noun as in night before

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Polls suggest about seven in 10 voters approve of her government, more than double the support enjoyed by her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, on the eve of his resignation in September.

Khawaja came under fire for playing golf on the eve of the Test, although Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg stressed the back problem was pre-existing.

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It got to the stage where Howe was only half joking when he said "we don't have anything new left" on the eve of Saturday's game.

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Cricket Australia defended underfire Usman Khawaja on Saturday for playing a round of golf on the eve of the first Ashes Test, where he failed to open the innings with back stiffness.

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Nothing was more frustrating to them on the eve of the French Revolution than the realization that the majority of Frenchmen didn’t speak French.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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