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There have been previous waves of people moving to Texas, and we are now experiencing the latest wave.

Some species germinate quicker than others, and the operator must determine by previous trial what these differences are.

My uncle had often during the previous twenty years, crossed the mountains, on trapping expeditions with an elder brother.

Here, on the outer edge of the road, was a gully which the wind of the day previous had partly filled with snow.

What words may we use to express a condensed view of a subject, whether derived from a previous publication or not?

Of all the property spared them by previous oppressors, nothing was left to sustain the miserable survivors.