Example Sentences

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The “gaffe,” in its old, prepolitical usage, was essentially a faux pas: a breach of etiquette or — in the diplomatic context, where it often appeared — local custom.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2016

Tyrion is the embodiment, in a small body, of the show’s prepolitical psychological range.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2016

The parties are a vestige of Mr. Bloomberg’s prepolitical days, when he was known for throwing lavish parties for employees at his media company.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012

This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer."

From Time Magazine Archive

The priestly Torah was an entirely unpolitical or rather prepolitical institution; it had an existence before the state had, and it was one of the invisible foundation pillars on which the state rested.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius