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- noun What
precedes orproduces a particularoutcome ;events that have yet tooccur , or are in theprocess of occurring.
Etymologies
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From before + math (“a mowing”), by analogy with aftermath.
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Examples
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In this new economy however, we must learn to manage the beforemath; that is, the consequences of events that have not yet occurred.
Navigating the Winds of Change LYNN ANDERSON 1994
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There is no completed act, no boundwork of art in which the present might find its face, there is only the retrospect, the beforemath: as Lowell put it, "my eyes have seen what my hand did."
blog 2008
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