earlier

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Adverb
  • The Milwaukee Bucks have fallen behind early in each of the first two games of their first-round playoff series against the Indiana Pacers.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • While the Harvard survey doesn’t name specific causes, many young Americans may be feeling the squeeze from persistently high inflation and the resumption of student loan payments — especially those still early in their careers, when earnings tend to be lower.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Disagreements among the cardinals have already emerged in the media.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • Consumers are already starting to notice costs rising from Trump’s tariff strategy, which has been all over the map: adding some here, delaying them there, canceling them here, upping them there.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 2 May 2025
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“Earlier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/earlier. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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