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In a radically transformed political landscape, however, revolts and revolutions eventually emerged that challenged the last remnants of the prerevolutionary status quo.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

There is no chapter on France, and where it is mentioned elsewhere the focus is on prerevolutionary affairs.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2019

The title alone, from a love lyric by the prerevolutionary poet Forugh Farrokhzad that Behzad recites, suggests the irrepressible beauty of playtime.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014

We're offered a vivid portrait of a society in a state of prerevolutionary chaos, and that emerges strongly from Upton's free adaptation.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

It is also not restricted to our time: Sumerian cylinder seals from the third millennium b.c. and Taoist flags in prerevolutionary China displayed constellations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan