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View definitions for earlier

earlier

adjective as in former

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adverb as in previously

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Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

In 2007, Huckabee said he stood by these earlier remarks, but would phrase them differently.

He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.

An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.

The pilot had earlier called air-traffic control reporting heavy clouds and asked to move up to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet.

The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.

But a little earlier still, to be an Infidel was to be an outlaw, subject to the penalty of death.

The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

His lordship during the earlier part of his reign never came near Walls End Castle.

The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to earlier, such as: former, past, previous, prior, and preceding.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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