sooner or later

adverb

Synonyms of sooner or later next

: at some uncertain future time : sometime

Examples of sooner or later in a Sentence

sooner or later, the police are going to track down the burglar

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Conservative Microsoft Explores Bitcoin Investment While MicroStrategy and Nvidia Drive Crypto Innovation Students of history know that even the most iconoclastic revolutionary sooner or later becomes a conservative. —

Sandy Carter, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 Still, experts think AI models will catch up to the new benchmark sooner or later—whether mathematicians like it or not. —

Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 3 Dec. 2024 Impossible jobs make for good TV, but impossible demands sooner or later become indefensible in real life. —

Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024 Some executives believe that AI development will itself sooner or later migrate to impenetrable bunkers whose supercomputers will be powered with nuclear reactors. —

Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sooner or later

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sooner or later was in 1577

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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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