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ere

[air] / ɛər /
ADVERB
sooner than
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Adjusted earnings per share, which excludes nonrecurring items, declined to 87 cents from $1.06, but ere above the FactSet consensus of 63 cents.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025

"Viewers and listeners ere at the centre of what we do," the regulator said in a statement.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023

“To love that well which thou must leave ere long,” says the Bard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022

Then, with all the smoothness of somebody who fathered a whole country, he proclaims that his heart “must cease to beat, ere it can cease to wish for your happiness, above any thing on earth.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017

I could find it nowhere but at the inn, and thither, ere long, I returned.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë


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