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It means that any new legislation on welfare will not even be introduced to Parliament until mid-2027 at the earliest, despite the policy area being one of the government's main priorities.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Some of her earliest memories are the elaborate costumes her father used to wear on stage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Leading up to that, he was one of the earliest entrepreneurs to plant his flag in the basic cable realm with the Atlanta-based “superstation” we’d eventually come to know as TBS.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

The real-estate tech platform was one of the earliest companies to roll out a ChatGPT app back in October.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The very earliest events in the specification of an embryo—the specification of the body axis, of front and back, and left versus right—were among the last to be understood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee