in advance of
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“While compacting the concrete aggregate base in advance of final street resurfacing, water began to pool at the surface toward the eastern edge of the work area,” the utility said in a news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The exploding popularity of prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi with young staffers who have access to this information has created a pervasive temptation that is growing in advance of November’s elections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Cottrell, via his lawyers, said he "categorically disputes allegations and assertions made by The Sunday Times, which clearly fail to reflect what that publisher was told in advance of its reporting".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Unlike other life-threatening diseases, like kidney failure or heart failure, dementia causes people to lose the ability to direct their own care fairly far in advance of their death, Gaster says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
She let her hand he listlessly, as though her thoughts were elsewhere— somewhere in advance of her body, and she was striving to overtake them.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
