know beforehand
Frequency: 8.021.5 per million words
Used to indicate having knowledge of an event or fact before it happens.
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Examples (10)
- If I had known beforehand, I would have prepared a different speech.
- Did you know beforehand that the flight would be delayed?
- We didn't know beforehand about the surprise inspection.
- It's always better to know the potential challenges beforehand.
- The organizers should have let us know the schedule beforehand.
- She has a talent for knowing the outcome of events beforehand.
- There was no way for them to have known the results beforehand.
- To plan effectively, we need to know the budget beforehand.
- He confessed that he had known about the decision beforehand.
- I wish I could know the future beforehand, but life doesn't work that way.