prerevolutionary
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Once full of prerevolutionary mansions, it now houses many embassies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In a radically transformed political landscape, however, revolts and revolutions eventually emerged that challenged the last remnants of the prerevolutionary status quo.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Robert Darnton, acknowledged by Beckerman, has done a lifetime’s brilliant work on the sociability of prerevolutionary French writers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
The title alone, from a love lyric by the prerevolutionary poet Forugh Farrokhzad that Behzad recites, suggests the irrepressible beauty of playtime.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 2, 2014
It is also not restricted to our time: Sumerian cylinder seals from the third millennium b.c. and Taoist flags in prerevolutionary China displayed constellations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
