Priors
6 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of prior: previous criminal convictions on a person's record, or things that came before.
“The defendant's priors were taken into account during sentencing.”
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previous convictionsantecedentscriminal record
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No uncommon letters, PRIORS ends in ORS and the PRI start is shared with many words
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All common low-value tiles, PRIORS scores modestly and the S ending hooks from PRIOR cleanly
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