sooner or later

Adverb

Meaning

sooner or later (not comparable)

(set phrase) Eventually, at some undetermined time in the not-too-distant future.
He’ll turn up sooner or later.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

lastly yet in the end eventually finally ultimately somewhere sometime at length someday in due course by and by in time at last in due time
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Antonyms

asap now directly immediately shortly instantly
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Examples

“All I can do is appeal to the patron saint of lost causes and keep pressing and pressing, and sooner or later you have to succeed.” Source: Internet

And therein lay a tantalising prospect: of a political discourse that might sooner or later reconnect to the basics of government, and the real world. Source: Internet

Calvin remarks that "sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball", Watterson (2005). vol. 3, p. 438. Comic originally published 1995-09-24. Source: Internet

Although they’ll resolve to keep that hookup a secret, the truth will obviously come out sooner or later. Source: Internet

Charles' secret weapon turned out to be not so secret and, sooner or later, all sorts of bands were exploiting the same strategy of wide dynamics. Source: Internet

“A liberal, a socialist, gosh keep shooting you might hit something sooner or later …” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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