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adjective

prior

CEFR B2

existing or happening before something else in time or order

In a sentence

Six example sentences with prior, each labelled with its topic.

  • The court refused the appeal because a prior ruling on the same lease, issued two years earlier, had already settled the question.

    Law

  • The surgeon asked about prior operations, and the scar from a childhood appendix removal changed where she placed the incision.

    Medicine

  • The 1815 settlement at Vienna restored several borders fixed by a prior treaty, undoing two decades of changes at one table.

    History

  • The new director spent her prior career in logistics, and the warehouse noticed the difference within a month.

    Business

  • A prior trip to the region taught her to carry cash, since the card readers in the hills rarely work.

    Travel

  • The prior season's statistics meant little once the new coach installed a system that never let him post up.

    Basketball

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