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before

 
 
/bɪˈfɔːr/ adverb

Definition

at an earlier time, or on a previous occasion: I've never seen her before. We had spoken on the phone a few days before.
(Definition of before adverb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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