Example Sentences

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Or, as Dr. O’Keefe put it, “We are still in the pre-Newtonian phase of neuroscience.”

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013

What next, he wondered: pre-Newtonian science perhaps, or pre-Chaucerian verse?

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010