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before the fact

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Before the commission of a crime.

    • accessory before the fact

  2. Assumed prior to factual study

    Assumed prior to factual study; ipso facto true, good, or correct; a priori.

    • Feminism envisaged as a 'home' insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for before the fact. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA