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Engagement among Double Date users (prior to the Modes launch) were sending nearly 25% more messages per match than one-on-one chats, and nearly 15% of users who accepted a Double Date invite were either new to Tinder or recently reactivated their account.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
The document revealed that Russia had launched two cyber attacks prior to the election, one against a company that sold software related to voter registration, and another against 122 local election officials.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Padmanabhan joins the company from Wells Fargo, and was a partner at Bain & Company prior to that.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In this case, though, most college football fans had never heard of Mensah prior to him landing at Duke.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
The document revealed that Russia had launched two cyber attacks prior to the election, one against a company that sold software related to voter registration, and another against 122 local election officials.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Padmanabhan joins the company from Wells Fargo, and was a partner at Bain & Company prior to that.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In this case, though, most college football fans had never heard of Mensah prior to him landing at Duke.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prior to
Preposition
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The video, released Thursday night, showed a person running across a rooftop of the building from which the fatal round was fired before climbing down and dropping to the ground.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Months before at the same campus, a 100-person brawl had led to the cancelation of an event featuring another Turning Point USA speaker.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Preposition
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Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 July 2025
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Researchers tested this process, known as photothermal catalysis, in the laboratory using a simulant based on samples of lunar regolith returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission (the lunar samples are far too previous to destroy in such experiments, which is why a simulant is used instead).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
Preposition
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King, a 56-year-old cattle and poultry farmer, is currently serving his second stint in the Senate, after first being elected to the chamber in 2013.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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The size and fervor of his audiences spoke to his place in the conservative firmament.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Prior to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prior%20to. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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