be early

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The next step will be early stage clinical trials to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the treatment in people with solid tumors and blood cancers.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

At 35, I thought my strange symptoms had to be early menopause.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

There will be early signals of what’s to come for each side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"It sits above Roman waterfronts so that road effectively protects a whole massive swathe of wonderful archaeology - and that would be early Roman waterfronts, medieval buildings, everything," she says.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

He might be early, of course, and stocks might fall some before they rose, but that didn’t matter to him: The value was now there, and the bet would work out in the long run.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis