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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