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Definition of "sooner or later" [sooner or later]

  • Eventually, at some undetermined point in the not-too-distant future. (adverb)

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Use "sooner or later" in a sentence
  • "In 1971, Jane Brody of The New York Times wrote of a “growing league of professionals that is trying to throw new light on a long-taboo subject that sooner or later touches every human being.”"
  • "For the sparsely settled and babarous regions occupied by the Teutonic invaders changes would sooner or later become necessary."
  • "It was during a meeting with one of the many shady, rheumy-eyed CEOs who offered me endorsement deals that the guy actually said, You will be great selling things on this new network, because as women buy more things from TV, they go outside less, and sooner or later they become shut-ins, which is, to put it bluntly, an actual captive audience."