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the former
the former · the first
N3
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • Joan and Jane are sisters. The former is a pianist.

  • The former is better than the latter.

  • The solution of one may prove to be the solution of the other.

  • The former is inferior to the latter in some respect.

  • Out of the two designs, I prefer the former to the latter.

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