- comparative of early.
earlier
Example Sentences
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At the Brics summit in India earlier in September, Xi skipped a gala dinner attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders because he wasn’t feeling well, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
At the halfway point of the 16-day festival, sales of nonalcoholic beer were up 4.5% from a year earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Researchers combined previously published genomic information for long Covid, PTSD, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis from existing genome-wide association studies with 3D genomic data from an earlier study of people with ME/CFS.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Smaller stocks fared even worse, hitting hopes that they were on a firmer path after gains earlier in the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He sat in his chair in the corner, his head buried in the newspaper that had come earlier that day.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
