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EARLY ON
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During an early stage
Example:
early on in her career
Synonyms:
early; early on
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Context examples:
As he was to begin his journey too early on the morrow to see any of the family, the ceremony of leave-taking was performed when the ladies moved for the night; and Mrs. Bennet, with great politeness and cordiality, said how happy they should be to see him at Longbourn again, whenever his engagements might allow him to visit them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North- Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.
(Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart, NASA)
From very early on, the Doppler measurements for Teegarden’s Star showed the presence of at least two signals, now identified as the two new exoplanets called Teegarden b and c. In order to ensure the detection was reliable, with a new instrument, over 200 measurements needed to be made.
(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)
Astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes were able to grow so large so early on in the history of the Universe.
(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)
The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I saw him once, early on the morning of her birthday, when she came to sit in the window while we were at work (which she had always done, but now began to do with a timid and uncertain air that I thought very touching), take her forehead between his hands, kiss it, and go hurriedly away, too much moved to remain.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
