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
The expectation around the industry continues to be that, sooner or later, Preller will trade from his major-league roster.
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Dennis Lin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Point is, the Pacifica is going to need to go in this direction sooner or later, and Stellantis’ partner appears to have an enticing product now.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 7 Jan. 2026
Japan carried a vast public debt, and so the thinking was that interest rates just had to rise sooner or later to lure in enough buyers.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
The end of law sooner or later ends in catastrophe.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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Dennis Lin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Point is, the Pacifica is going to need to go in this direction sooner or later, and Stellantis’ partner appears to have an enticing product now.
—Adam Ismail, The Drive, 7 Jan. 2026
Japan carried a vast public debt, and so the thinking was that interest rates just had to rise sooner or later to lure in enough buyers.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
The end of law sooner or later ends in catastrophe.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sooner or later
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sooner or later
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Putin’s dangerous gamble Putin believes that time is on the side of his bigger army, Western officials and analysts say — and that Western support will trail off and that Ukraine’s military resistance will eventually crumble.—
Illia Novikov,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Of course, three weeks of near-constant togetherness eventually caught up with us.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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But Republicans are worried that the popular but scandal-plagued Paxton could eventually win the primary, boosting Democrats’ chances of finally flipping the seat blue after decades of false hope.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Feb. 2026
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With the unanimous approval of the new testing that has now been written into F1’s rules, the compression ratio wrangling can finally be put to an end just in time before the season starts in Australia.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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Buscio hopes to someday become a child therapist.—
Stephanie Stahl,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Riley honor The Heat is expected to build a statue for team president Pat Riley someday, and that would put him in very unique company in the wake of the Lakers unveiling a statue for the coach who guided them to four championships.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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