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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

A sign nearby now reads "Banksy woz ere" and offers an apology to disappointed fans of the street artist.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2022

Then, with all the smoothness of somebody who fathered a whole country, he proclaims that his heart “must cease to beat, ere it can cease to wish for your happiness, above any thing on earth.”

From Washington Post Apr. 10, 2017

‘Get you gone, ere it turn to your evil.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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