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Earlier
/ˈɜːr.li.ər/adjective / adverb
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Earlier means happening or done before the usual or expected time, often used to denote a point in the past relative to another. In modern contexts, it adds clarity to timelines in everything from casual conversations to complex project management, helping to emphasize precedence without overwhelming detail.
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The concept of 'earlier' gained new precision with the adoption of atomic clocks in the 1950s, which measure time so accurately that they lose or gain less than a second over millions of years, fundamentally changing how we track and compare moments in global events like space missions.
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