sooner or later

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Recent Examples of sooner or later The political donations surely will be flowing again sooner or later. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026 And this is especially important considering his grandfather, King Charles, has been battling cancer for a few years, and preparations for his father to take the throne sooner or later are already in place. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 June 2026 And if the team can’t fix its bullpen woes sooner or later, some members might be designated for assignment. Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 The Edmonton Oilers’ offseason received a jolt on Thursday after an article from Mark Spector at Sportsnet outlined that the Oilers and veteran defenceman Darnell Nurse are reaching a crossroads that will, sooner or later, see a parting of ways. Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 5 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for sooner or later
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sooner or later
Adverb
  • The judges eventually discuss the clothes — but there, too, things get dramatic, with a lot of disagreement between Law and the other judges.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Hunt and her team eventually traced the genetic changes to a new cleaning method eroding the polycarbonate cages that housed the animals.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Zahavy dissected the process that went into Albert Einstein’s formulation of his General Relativity Theory, noting that the scientist’s thinking evolved through three phases – deduction, induction, and finally, abduction.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The massive fire, which brought more than 300 firefighters to the scene, was finally put out by Wednesday evening.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Second, the recent shifting of US export control policy has created a real concern among other nations that access to frontier intelligence itself could someday be gated by geopolitics, not just chips.
    Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The hope is that the birds on Palmyra Atoll will hatch chicks outside of human care for the first time in 40 years, and someday, once the brown tree snakes are managed, Guam kingfishers can finally return to their native habitat.
    Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 July 2026

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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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