sooner rather than later

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sooner rather than later (not comparable)

  1. In the fairly near future; fairly soon.
    • 1994, Harold S. Bernard, K. Roy MacKenzie, Basics of Group Psychotherapy, page 156:
      I believe that therapists need to be proactive rather than laissez faire in addressing problems— if not immediately, then sooner rather than later.
    • 2006, B. Brown, What Drives Global Capital Flows?, page 174:
      Their present policy of sterilizing monetary inflows is creating imbalances which suggests, sooner rather than later, they're going to have to, for stability purposes, move their currency.
    • 2017, Robert Wynn, Rukhmi Bhat, Paul Monagle, Pediatric Hematology: A Practical Guide, page 66:
      The response rate is probably higher when treatment is applied sooner rather than later after diagnosis and to children with VSAA rather than AA.

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