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• s  (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early
  Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera
• a  at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
• a  being or occurring at an early stage of development
• s  belonging to the distant past
• s  very young
• a  of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
• s  expected in the near future
• r  with the least delay

• They may have been a lot like Kennewick Man, whose hotly disputed bones are helping rewrite our earliest history.
• The earliest TV shows were oddly assembled transitions between old genres that were (theater, vaudeville, etc.

• earlier
• early
• former
• other
• soonest

• late

News & Articles

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• IRS official contradicts claims about reviews
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.
  June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.
  June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• IRS supervisor in Washington reviewed earliest tea party cases, contradicting agency claims
  WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.
  June 16, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Tom Stoppard in Times Online
  The Oscar-winning writer Sir Tom Stoppard said: "With his earliest work he stood alone in British theatre up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers, too."
• Sarah Palin in San Francisco Chronicle
  One of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to the New York Times, was a domestic terrorist ...... part of a group which launched a campaign to bombthe Pentagon and the US Capitol, Palin told the Carson crowd. "These are the...
• Chris Stringer in Financial Times
  These finds are by far the earliest known evidence of humans in Britain,said Chris Stringer, head of human origins research at London's Natural History Museum. "They have significant implications for our understanding of early human...