earliest

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He’s sharing clips of his 2016 Funny or Die sketch series “The Earliest Show” on his social media to gauge interest in reviving the project.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

That first volume, “Music From the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century,” was often judged the most successful of the series.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2022

"Secret papers probably in black briefcase. Earliest possible information required. It should be recovered at once. Care should be taken that it does not get into undesirable hands."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022

Earliest life consisted of single cells called prokaryotes, very similar to the bacteria that have thrived on Earth ever since.

From Salon • May 30, 2021

Catalogue of a Collection of European Enamels    From the Earliest date to the End of the XVII.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various