Ahead of
Prior
Prior adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Pole Position was truly ahead of its time when it was released in 1981, being the first driving game in three dimensions; driving games prior to that use a top-down view instead.
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No passengers had ever been injured or killed on a Zeppelin flight since they were invented over thirty years prior, which put them leagues ahead of the era's much smaller and frailer airplanes.
Source: Zeppelins from Another World -
When a border colony attempted to secede several decades prior, the Emperor sent the Space Navy to force its submission, while secretly assembling a volunteer force to travel ahead of the fleet and massacre the population.
Source: The Empire
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