In spite of
Shortly before and in spite of are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Shortly before" with "In spite of", this phrases are similar.
Shortly before
In spite of and shortly before are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "In spite of" with "Shortly before", this phrases are similar.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- moving and in spite of
- moving and shortly before
- nearly and in spite of
- nearly and shortly before
- proceeding and in spite of
- proceeding and shortly before
- approaching and in spite of
- approaching and shortly before
- after and in spite of
- after and shortly before
- against and in spite of
- against and shortly before
- contra and in spite of
- contra and shortly before
Both terms in one sentence
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He hates his father Wolverine with a passion, yet he seems to have a very loving memory of his mother, in spite of her dying shortly before his birth.
Source: Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas - In Spite of a Nail: Played with: Killing Karl Marx before he publishes Das Kapital has a big effect on the time stream, killing him after not so much, and killing him shortly before he would have died anyway has hardly any affect at all.
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Shortly before and In spite of. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/in_spite_of/shortly_before
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