early
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The dinner was an early sign of the central tension of Warsh’s chairmanship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Lawsuits against J&J over its talc-based baby powder started as early as 2009.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“In the early 1960s I began going to coffee houses and they’d have books on the occult,” she told the New York Times in 1978.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Both played a significant role in the Amazon's rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th century, it added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Maybe because of the way they taste the berries are rarely eaten by game early in the fall when they come ripe.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
"The later crops, the second earlies, are more a concern, because they're at tuber initiation stage," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Circumcising babies when they are at their earlies stage of development-imprinting every experience- is bad medicine.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2012
After Panetta met with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius earlies this month, the columnist wrote that “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
If you, like me, have long been befuddled by potato planting classifications – earlies, second earlies, maincrop, lates – this podcast is revelatory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Try | | | | other earlies |Golden Wax | May 15 | July 22| Rusted.
From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
After Trujillo finished testifying, prosecutors played a video of his earlier sworn statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Burkina, Mali and Niger did so earlier in July, leading the ICC's executive body to voice concern that their departure undermined the global pursuit of justice.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Apple had previously drawn close to usurping Nvidia by market value earlier this month.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“You need a thick skin,” he told one of them earlier this year after they complained about what they perceived as an unfair story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The paper in question is still on Theo’s bed where I’d piled the other papers earlier, right on top.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Recent research from Lund University and the University of Sussex proposes that the earliest ancestor of vertebrates passed through a cyclops-like stage nearly 600 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The paper quotes a Home Office spokesman who says there are "stringent security checks" for small boat arrivals and those identified as a threat will be detained and removed "at the earliest opportunity".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
This recognizes Douglass as one of the earliest and most prominent popular constitutionalists.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We will make every effort to have the bill introduced and passed by the House at the earliest," Modi added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
My earliest memory is of sitting outside our hut.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
