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IN ADVANCE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated ahead or going before
Example:
at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies
Synonyms:
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Similar:
front (relating to or located in the front)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ahead of time; in anticipation
Example:
should have made reservations beforehand
Synonyms:
ahead; beforehand; in advance
Classified under:
Context examples:
The she-wolf was trotting wearily along, her mate well in advance, when she came upon the overhanging, high clay-bank.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We are taking preventative action and keeping a vaccination belt in cities closer to the boundary with Minas Gerais state, and we also offer immunization ten days in advance to those traveling there.
(Aedes mosquitoes almost impossible to eradicate, says Brazilian researcher, Agência Brasil)
The paper, “Crossing kingdoms: Using decelluralized plants as perfusable tissue engineering scaffolds” is published online in advance of the May 2017 issue of the journal Biomaterials.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
His most conspicuous trait was an ability to scent the wind and forecast it a night in advance.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sir Nigel and Ford had ridden on in advance, the knight upon his hackney, while his great war-horse trotted beside his squire.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day’s journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
FAI is a new method of analyzing CT scans that can predict a patient’s risk of fatal heart attacks and other cardiac events years in advance, and independent of other traditional risk factors for heart disease.
(Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition, National Institutes of Health)
Being a very honest little creature, and unwilling to disgrace the memory I was going to leave behind me at Murdstone and Grinby's, I considered myself bound to remain until Saturday night; and, as I had been paid a week's wages in advance when I first came there, not to present myself in the counting-house at the usual hour, to receive my stipend.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Had we done so, the Count must have guessed our purpose, and would doubtless have taken measures in advance to frustrate such an effort with regard to the others; but now he does not know our intentions.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Prolonged excitation of GABAergic neurons in BNST by a chemogenetic method evoked a longer-lasting, sustained wakefulness state, and it was abolished by administering a dual orexin receptor blocker (antagonist) DORA 22 in advance, meaning that orexins are involved in this phenomenon.
(The Secret Connection between Anxiety, Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
