Before-and-after
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A before-and-after pair of images.
"I got back to my practice in San Francisco, two months went by, when a package from Dr. Toledo arrived with photos of the results. Looking at these before-and-afters of people who we’d seen directly was like one of those amazing moments where time seems to stop and you realize that something momentous has happened and that your life will never be the same again."
- 1 Describing a pair of images showing the difference made by a specified treatment not-comparable
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More examples"I got back to my practice in San Francisco, two months went by, when a package from Dr. Toledo arrived with photos of the results. Looking at these before-and-afters of people who we’d seen directly was like one of those amazing moments where time seems to stop and you realize that something momentous has happened and that your life will never be the same again."
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