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Pronunciation guide for prior
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of prior with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Pioneering Change in The LGBT Chicago Community
were around, either right prior to Stonewall or current,
- Definition summary
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce prior
Pioneering Change in The LGBT Chicago Community
were around, either right prior to Stonewall or current,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “prior”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- [Adverb]
- Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.
- [Noun]
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected. [from 20th c.]
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record. [from 19th c.]
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