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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

A sign nearby now reads "Banksy woz ere" and offers an apology to disappointed fans of the street artist.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

“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

‘It is tidings more grievous than any in this land can understand, though it may touch them sorely ere the year is much older,’ said Aragorn.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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