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[ adverb ] prior to a specified or implied time

Examples

"she has already graduated"

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

The experiments of Romagnosi and_others have already been noted but no one had determined the cause and effect relationship between these two primary forces .

(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

We have already witnessed great changes through mergers and acquisitions in the food industry - at both the manufacturing and retail ends .

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis .

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

In_other_words , the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life , and that the new conspiracy counted_on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective , as a readiness for murder .

It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe .

Related terms

not_yet

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