What is another word for shortly before?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈɔːtli bɪfˈɔː] (IPA)

"Shortly before" is a common phrase used to indicate a time frame that is just before a certain event. However, there are several synonyms for this phrase that can add variety to your writing. One option is "just prior to," which has a similar meaning and sounds a bit more sophisticated. Another synonym is "previously," which is a broader term that can refer to any time before a specific moment. Another option is "a little earlier," which can be used in both casual and formal conversations. Finally, "shortly prior to" could be used interchangeably depending on the context, suggesting the event will occur in a matter of minutes or hours.

What are the hypernyms for Shortly before?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Shortly before

  • I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
    Chester Brown
  • My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
    Patrick White
  • I am leaving no sermon, no dogma, nor am I leaving as my legacy any commandment that is frozen in time or cast in stone,” he said shortly before his death. 'Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.
    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • I had it all, and I blew it. (shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism)
    Mickey Mantle
  • I regard the as one of the world's masterpieces. Its character-drawing, its deep and rich humanity, its perfect finish of style and its story entitle it to that. Its characters live, more real and more familiar to us than our living friends, and each speaks an accent which we can recognize. Above all, it has what we call a great story: a fabulously beautiful Chinese house-garden; a great official family, with four daughters and a son growing up and some beautiful female cousins of the same age, living a life of continual raillery and bantering laughter; a number of extremely charming and clever maid-servants, some of the plotting, intriguing type and some quick-tempered but true, and some secretly in love with the master; a few faithless servants' wives involved in little family jealousies and scandals; a father for ever absent from home on official service and two or three daughters-in-law managing the complicated routine of the whole household with order and precision [...]; the "hero," Paoyü, a boy in puberty, with a fair intelligence and a great love of female company, sent, as we are made to understand, by God to go through this phantasmagoria of love and suffering, overprotected like the sole heir of all great families in China, doted on by his grandmother, the highest authority of the household, but extremely afraid of his father, completely admired by all his female cousins and catered for by his maid-servants, who attended to his bath and sat in watch over him at night; his love for Taiyü, his orphan cousin staying in their house, who was suffering from consumption [...], easily outshining the rest in beauty and poetry, but a little too clever to be happy like the more stupid ones, opening her love to Paoyü with the purity and intensity of a young maiden's heart; another female cousin, Paots'a, also in love with Paoyü, but plumper and more practical-minded and considered a better wife by the elders; the final deception, arrangements for the wedding to Paots'a by the mothers without Paoyü's or Taiyü's knowledge, Taiyü not hearing of it until shortly before the wedding, which made her laugh hysterically and sent her to her death, and Paoyü not hearing of it till the wedding night; Paoyü's discovery of the deception by his own parents, his becoming half-idiotic and losing his mind, and finally his becoming a monk. All of this is depicted against the rise and fall of a great family, the crescendo of piling family misfortunes extending over the last third of the story, taking one's breath away like the .
    Cao Xueqin

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