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sooner or later



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Idioms and Phrases

Eventually, at some unspecified future time, as in Sooner or later we'll have to answer that letter , or It's bound to stop raining sooner or later . This term, which generally implies that some future event is certain to happen, was first recorded in 1577.
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"We won't give in... I can assure you that sooner or later, sooner or later, we will win," he said.

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Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that, sooner or later, we could indeed overcome segregation and Jim Crow.

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"If we want results for the French people, sooner or later we'll have to have a frank, level-headed and challenging dialogue," he said.

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There's a widespread belief that, sooner or later, the war will begin again.

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Despite the full-blown argument, there may still be a minerals deal sooner or later.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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