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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

"Viewers and listeners ere at the centre of what we do," the regulator said in a statement.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2023

Able was I ere I saw the quick brown European fox jump over the dim lazy foreign tourist vacationing at Eddy’s Lodge in Elba.

From Washington Post Sep. 29, 2022

“To love that well which thou must leave ere long,” says the Bard.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2022

I walked fast through the room: I stopped, half suffocated with the thoughts that rose faster than I could receive, comprehend, settle them:—thoughts of what might, could, would, and should be, and that ere long.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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