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sooner or later
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.
Example Sentences
Sooner or later, the pursuit of the individual goal takes over, and the relationship ends up going sour.
"You could see he wanted to make it so bad. He hated losing - really hated it. He'd sulk for ages. But that fire, that edge… It was obvious. Sooner or later, he had to become a footballer."
"The task of direct negotiations with the Ukrainian side is to sooner or later reach the establishment of long-term peace by eliminating the basic root causes of the conflict," Medinsky said.
“And if it feels too good to be true, that’s because it is. Sooner or later, you’ve got to pay the piper.”
"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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