sooner or later

adverb

: at some uncertain future time : sometime

Examples of sooner or later in a Sentence

sooner or later, the police are going to track down the burglar
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With all the estimate revisions across Wall Street, sooner or later the consensus will no longer be too high for Club name Apple to beat. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025 Connelly might have a grand plan that will be unveiled sooner or later. Nick Halter, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025 The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States. Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025 The problem is that, sooner or later, an unending war can give the impression, if not of defeat, then of stagnation. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sooner or later 

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of sooner or later was in 1577

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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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