early
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“Soho did not become world famous by taking last orders early, switching the lights off at ten o’clock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Citadel won that deal in the early hours of Thursday, July 30, paying a 10% or so discount to public market prices at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Edith Aguirre, who has taught in UCLA’s early childhood education program for 16 years, doesn’t expect it will be hard to find another job given high turnover in the child-care industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"It's not just a case of monitoring south of the border, but trying to be vigilant and making early decisions to protect the flock and herd."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
That night after an early supper, the school board met in an emergency meeting.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
"The later crops, the second earlies, are more a concern, because they're at tuber initiation stage," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Circumcising babies when they are at their earlies stage of development-imprinting every experience- is bad medicine.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2012
After Panetta met with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius earlies this month, the columnist wrote that “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
If you, like me, have long been befuddled by potato planting classifications – earlies, second earlies, maincrop, lates – this podcast is revelatory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
The alcalde will be please' to accommodate at the earlies'.
From The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Net profit climbed 9 percent from a year earlier to US$9.8 billion in the financial year to June 30, said the resources group, the world's biggest miner by market value.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Arday’s back story—an autistic child of Ghanaian migrants who couldn’t speak until he was 11 and went on to become a trail blazer at Cambridge—came under scrutiny earlier this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The figure is one of several new findings in a BBC investigation that, earlier this year, uncovered the first seven cases.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Adelaide was born earlier this month at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, weighing 6lb 9oz.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The paper in question is still on Theo’s bed where I’d piled the other papers earlier, right on top.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Understanding how life began addresses one of humanity's most fundamental questions: where we came from, where the first living systems appeared, and how Earth's earliest cells were able to survive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is not expected to be the case until Friday at the earliest.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
If it were possible to watch the earliest cells take shape, the scene may have involved two distinct forms of primitive cellular life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
She thought back to one of her earliest memories, when she was four years old and her sister Catherine was born.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
