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You might be familiar with

sed '/pattern/G'

for inserting a blank line *below* lines matching /pattern/ but sometimes you want to put the blank line *above* the matching line. For that, you can use

sed '/pattern/{x;p;x;}'

It swaps the current space with the (empty) hold-space, prints that blank-line, then swaps them back so the matching line is there to be printed at the end of the cycle.