as in eventually
at a later time
sooner or later, the police are going to track down the burglar
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Recent Examples of sooner or later
By not doing so, sooner or later, someone is going to get seriously hurt.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
That is a problem for Moscow and its President Vladimir Putin, who has always insisted that Russia’s victory in the war is inevitable because Russian troops keep seizing more of Ukraine’s territory and, sooner or later, will take over the whole of its eastern Donbas region.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
These moments of sudden restlessness come for all of us sooner or later.
—Big Think, 6 May 2026
Signs Tomatoes Are Planted Too Close Together Unfortunately, not giving your tomato plants sufficient space will backfire sooner or later in the growing season.
—Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 23 Apr. 2026
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
That is a problem for Moscow and its President Vladimir Putin, who has always insisted that Russia’s victory in the war is inevitable because Russian troops keep seizing more of Ukraine’s territory and, sooner or later, will take over the whole of its eastern Donbas region.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
These moments of sudden restlessness come for all of us sooner or later.
—Big Think, 6 May 2026
Signs Tomatoes Are Planted Too Close Together Unfortunately, not giving your tomato plants sufficient space will backfire sooner or later in the growing season.
—Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sooner or later
Adverb
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Crisis negotiators were able to contact O'Brien via phone, eventually leading to his surrender.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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Damaging wind gusts potentially topping 75 mph will take over as the main threat later Wednesday night, with individual storms expected to merge into cohesive lines from eastern Kansas first and eventually expand to western Ohio.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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Six years after Remedy unleashed Control in 2019, the Finnish video game studio is finally ready to give us the sequel.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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Feldmann’s boat, and finally this flimsy kayak, deliver us to the rocky shore of Greenland and the musk oxen that don’t care about our long, circuitous approach.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
11 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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By the way, 3200 Phaethon is not one of those killer asteroids that’s expected to bash into the Earth someday, at least not for now.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
7 Dec. 2025
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If that funding vanishes, Coppedage worries Jack will someday end up in a facility where people don’t know him, don’t know how to communicate with him and don’t care about him.—
CalMatters,
Oc Register,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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