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no sooner than
Definition of no sooner than
—used to say that something happens immediately after something else No sooner had I spoken than he appeared.
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soonerplay
: a person settling on land in the early West before its official opening to settlement in order to gain the prior claim allowed by law to the first settler after official opening
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