Before
Before adverb - So as to precede something in order of time.
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Simon Blackquill had to have started prosecuting some time before he was twenty-one, when he was arrested, and since his courtroom tactics are so well-known even after seven years in prison, it's likely he started sooner rather than later.
Source: Improbable Age -
In fact, everything that happened in his life before X-Men was the result of an alternate universe version of him manipulating him into going back in time and arraging things so that the events surrounding his prophecy would come about sooner.
Source: Apocalypse Maiden - In the novelization, said commander at the same time laments that the order to kill Obi-Wan hadn't come just one minute sooner, before he'd returned Obi-Wan's lightsaber.
Source: Left for Dead
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Sooner and Before. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/before/sooner
Before & Sooner. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/before/sooner>.
Sooner or Before. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/before/sooner.
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