Extinct and Prior

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Extinct adjective - No longer existing.

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Prior and extinct are semantically related in preceding topic. In some cases you can use "Prior" instead an adjective "Extinct".

Nearby Word: extinction

Prior adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Extinct and prior are semantically related in preceding topic. Sometimes you can use "Extinct" instead an adjective "Prior".

Prior to that, Farnsworth invokes a minor version of this trope, announcing that "your primitive notions of modesty" had been extinct for over eight hundred years, before stripping naked to play chess with Hermes.

Source: Free-Love Future
Some tens of thousands of years prior, they realized they were going extinct, and spent the rest of their days creating over fifty seed carriers that would restart their evolution on new worlds in the Pegasus galaxy.

Source: Franchise / Stargate-verse
Prior to the start of the main plot, the Batarians pushed the Actual Pacifist Liir into invoking a year-long example of Beware the Nice Ones so brutal it almost rendered the Batarians extinct.

Source: Curb Stomp Battle / Fan Fic

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