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before all else

ADVERB

especially

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chiefly exclusively notably principally specially specifically

STRONG

peculiarly

WEAK

abnormally above all conspicuously curiously eminently expressly extraordinarily in particular in specie mainly markedly oddly outstandingly preeminently primarily remarkably signally singularly strangely strikingly supremely unaccountably uncommonly uncustomarily uniquely unusually wonderfully

Antonyms

STRONGEST

broadly

WEAK

commonly generally normally ordinarily unexceptionally usually

ADVERB

first

Synonyms

STRONGEST

initially originally

WEAK

ahead at the outset beforehand in the first place to begin with to start with

Antonyms

WEAK

finally last

Example Sentences

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Abigail reminds us that Keynes — father of macroeconomics, who’s misquoted as frequently as he’s misunderstood — “was before all else a humanist, an old-school liberal pragmatist.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

When people spend on technology, they generally buy gadgets before all else.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

“Time and again, he put country before self, before party, before all else — in uniform and out — and it earned him the universal respect of the American people.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Maybe if they realize what they stand to lose if they insist on their right to throw Subway sandwiches out of a Honda before all else, they’ll reconsider.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020

He knew what it was like: the terrible, agonizing pain which was there all the while but could not be suffered yet, because before all else it was necessary to be able to breathe.

From "1984" by George Orwell

before all else

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