ERELONG Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

erelong

adverb

Definition of erelong

archaic

as in soon

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Adverb

The plant went offline soon after being captured by Russia early in the war, but needs power to keep essential cooling systems running.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026
The city will soon be holding advisory meetings to develop the list of events and festivals that will occur in the next 12 months.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of soon

Adverb

Against the Chiefs, Nix said Waddle was asking for the ball shortly before scoring a touchdown near the goal line.

— Sam Jane, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as the Dutch economy faced severe strain, his economics teacher told the class that banks would never fail, only for a major bank to collapse shortly thereafter.

— , CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of shortly

Adverb

Zipline presently operates in Texas, Arkansas and Ohio, with plans to launch soon in Arizona.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
Ugandan troops were first deployed to Somalia in 2007 under the banner of an African Union mission presently known as the AU Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, or AUSSOM.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of presently

Adverb

This album arrives seven and a half years after its nearest predecessor, and 34 months since it was first announced in January 2024.

— Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026
The region’s agricultural resilience, the food community’s innate ability to adapt, pivot and survive, would repeat itself more than a century later during the COVID-19 pandemic, but first came a shift toward commercial production.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of first

Adverb

Neither of the two knew it yet, but the trip would pull Krukoff into a lifelong obsession with the plants and remedies of the Amazon, the world of economic botany, and, before long, the Flying Death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026
Electric models aren’t that much more, and automation is going to be the standard before long.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of before long

Adverb

However, the flight system encountered a technical fault when Fluctus misinterpreted air pressure fluctuations as a crash landing and prematurely declared an emergency apogee, assuming the rocket was beyond recovery.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Earlier Thursday, the Justice Department informed the court that a construction contractor had prematurely painted lines on the grounds.

— Steven Portnoy, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

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