mentioned earlier

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Kirkham: My second name is a good example of what Lloyd mentioned earlier.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“The most promising option I can think of, as I mentioned earlier, would be for OpenAI to attach to Tesla as its cash cow,” Musk said in an email published by OpenAI.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

We also pushed a new criterion for things that were very obviously A.I., like those tells I mentioned earlier.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

As mentioned earlier, the second way international law addresses proportionality concerns individual actions within a conflict.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

These front-loaded modifiers can be useful in qualifying a sentence, in tying it to information mentioned earlier, or simply in avoiding the monotony of having one right-branching sentence after another.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker