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ALREADY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prior to a specified or implied time
Example:
she has already graduated
Classified under:
Context examples:
I understand that, Mr. Holmes, and it is already settled that he shall leave me forever, and go to seek his fortune in Australia.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I can assure you, said Holmes, that every essential is already known.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was already late in the afternoon, although still warm and sunny.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I gave a few halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Already we were in her dust, so that we could see nothing but the dim scarlet blur in the heart of it, rocking and rolling, with its outline hardening at every stride.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We already know our cousin's titles and style, and, certes, we know our own.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, the present study shows for the first time that, due to the warming of the Indo-Pacific oceans, changes in MJO circulation are already happening.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
It is used in patients who have already been treated with the anticancer drug called trastuzumab and a type of drug called a taxane.
(Ado-trastuzumab emtansine, NCI Dictionary)
Stability data submitted to an approved application already filed with the FDA.
(Approved Application Supplement, Food and Drug Administration)
