Sentence examples for prior word from inspiring English sources

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Villagers reportedly asked the Nigerian military to send soldiers to protect them from the attack after they had received prior word about it, but officers did not show up.

From this it appears that dysfluency on the prior word may be in anticipation of the up-coming difficulty (Clark & Clark, 1977; Howell, 2004a).

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Does the therapist report the patient's prior words or deeds (or threats that were never acted on) and in so doing, does she/he violate the patient's right to privacy?

In his speech, the President also obviously ignored his prior words when he said that the "pending Korean Free Trade Agreement [is] an agreement that will create new jobs and opportunity for people in both our countries", while implying the same thing about the Panama and Colombia FTAs, all of which is untrue.

The process involves verbal working memory that uses expectations based on prior words and phrases.

Sentence meaning, furthermore, is prior to word meaning, in the sense that the meanings of individual words are determined only by what they contribute to the thoughts expressed by the sentences in which the words appear.

In Example 13, 难吃 nanchi "bad taste" is a prior negative word, so if 难吃 nanchi "bad taste" occurred in a good comment, such as 谁说X? shuishuo X? "who said that it is X?," then this indicates a possible polarity shifting pattern, where X denotes any polar word.

For example, 好吃 haochi "delicious" was a prior positive word, so if 好吃 haochi "delicious" occurred in a bad comment, such as 不好吃 bu haochi "not delicious," it was possible that 不X bu X "not X" was a potential polarity shifting pattern, where X denoted a positive word.

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