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Definition of early on
: at or during an early point or stage
the reasons were obvious early on in the experiment
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Recent Examples on the Web But as Schneider-Mayerson and Bellamy note early on, citing the environmental critic Ursula Heise, the current crisis is one that requires a new kind of global thinking, one that resists single languages or cultures.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, "The Search for New Words to Make Us Care About the Climate Crisis," 21 Feb. 2020 And Textio knew that was going to happen really, really early on.
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Wired Staff, Wired, "How Machine Learning Can Help Stamp Out Hiring Bias," 21 Feb. 2020 All this said, if the team wins a few matches early on, much of the current mess will become background noise.
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Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Doc's Morning Line: Strange team, strange season for John Brannen, UC Bearcats," 20 Feb. 2020 An aspect Colorado got right early on, Freedman said, was a tiered cultivation and production management system that forced companies to grow wisely in conjunction with demand.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN, "So you want to legalize cannabis? Some dos and don'ts from the experts," 10 Feb. 2020 That technique, however messy, also allows the film's other female protagonists to enter the story early on, even if its zig-zaggy mechanics don't bring them together until late in the game.
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Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, "What to watch (and skip) in theaters and on Netflix this weekend," 7 Feb. 2020 Jimmy Garoppolo was solid early on (9-for-11 in the first half), but did have a forehead-slapping INT and in the second half was just 11-for-20 for 130 yards.
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Michael Lerseth, SFChronicle.com, "49ers’ Super Bowl review: For three quarters, it was theirs to win," 2 Feb. 2020 Choosing an effective organizational model early on, informed by the latest management science.
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Aimee Groth, Quartz at Work, "Extinction Rebellion is using holacracy to scale its international movement," 29 Dec. 2019 After relying on center Daniel Oturu too much early on, those other scoring threats have helped Minnesota (6-5) going into their final nonconference game against Florida International (9-3) at 3 p.m. Saturday at Williams Arena.
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Andy Greder, Twin Cities, "When Gabe Kalscheur rocks out, he makes sweet music for Gophers men’s basketball," 27 Dec. 2019
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