just before
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First-quarter profit margins in the commercial aerospace business were 26.4%, up more than seven percentage points from the first quarter of 2024, just before the GE Vernova spin.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Paramedics were unable to resuscitate Watkins and he was declared dead just before 10.15.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
A trade placed just before missile activity is confirmed doesn’t disappear; it sits on a distributed ledger permanently.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
They found that the brain shifted just before the animals moved, immediately after the abdominal muscles tightened to initiate motion.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
And just before they turned out the lights for the night, Henry would knock on their door and peep his head in.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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