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How to use the word earliest in a Sentence?

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We believe, based on the totality of positive data from clinical trials of this treatment, that the FDA should approve. Peer-reviewed, published results show lecanemab will provide patients in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s more time to participate in daily life and live independently. It could mean many months more of recognizing their spouse, children and grandchildren.

Maria Carrillo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it's reasonable to say that partial mobilization probably will not reflect itself on the battlefield for several months at the earliest, and could expand Russia's ability to sustain this war, but not alter its outcome.

Michael Kofman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dating all the way back to the earliest days of the HIV epidemic in our country, we saw our community abandoned by federal government in their response.

Tyler TerMeer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a responsibility to not further stigmatize or politicize this issue for a community that has long faced many issues, has long been marginalized in our community, dating all the way back to the earliest days of the HIV epidemic in our country, we saw our community abandoned by federal government in their response.

Tyler TerMeer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The diversity of tools is fantastic. In the 1920s, the site produced some of earliest handaxes ever discovered in Britain. Now, for the first time, we have found rare evidence of scraping and piercing implements at this very early age.

Alastair Key

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That beat a( daily high temperature) record from 1916. The previous record for May 7 was 97, that also represented the earliest 100-degree day here in Amarillo.

Alex Ferguson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As far as we know that was the earliest physical contact they had.

Sheriff Rick Singleton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The earliest recollection I have of them just soon after the kidnapping was that the kidnappers would line us all up, put an apple on our head and shoot and miss the apple and shoot me in the head, i would see my own funeral.

Survivor Jennifer Brown Hyde

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For over 25 years, Equal Pay Day has helped draw attention to gender-based pay disparities by highlighting how far into a new year a woman must work, on average, to earn what a man did in the previous year, this year, Equal Pay Day falls on March 15, the earliest we have ever marked the occasion. The earlier that Equal Pay Day arrives, the closer our Nation has come to achieving pay fairness. But while we should celebrate the progress we have made, as I have said in the past, we should not be satisfied until Equal Pay Day is no longer necessary at all.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Country, since its earliest days, has featured all kinds of love, it's not as exclusively focused as pop music is on romantic love, the' boy meets girl' sort.

Nadine Hubbs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I remember in 2015 when President Trump announced his run, I was one of his earliest supporters. I actually worked for the campaign in 2016. I worked at seven different states across the country to help get him elected.

Nancy Mace

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Masks were one of our earliest effective tools, and I think it will continue to be an absolutely important tool, particularly when rates are high within a community, they work.

William Haseltine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want to know, how did we get here from the Big Bang ? we want to look at those first galaxies growing. There are dark areas of dust skewing our view of those earliest times when the stars are growing, but we can see them with infrared.

John Mather

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On the gemstone is engraved an image of the ‘Good Shepherd,’ which is really one of the earliest symbols of Christianity.

Robert Cole

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Knowing more about how and where water exists on present-day Mars is essential to understand what happened to Mars' once-abundant water, and helps our search for habitable environments, possible signs of past life, and organic materials from Mars' earliest days.

Colin Wilson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

How can it be fair, how can it be right, how can it be possible, to extradite Julian to the very country which plotted to kill him? we will appeal this decision at the earliest possible moment.

Stella Moris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The well-preserved tail feathers in this new fossil bird provide great new information about how sexual selection has shaped the avian tail from their earliest stage, the complexity we see in Yuanchuavis's feathers is related to one of the reasons we hypothesize why living birds are so incredibly diverse, because they can separate themselves into different species just by differences in plumage and differences in song.

Wang Min

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This new discovery vividly demonstrates how the interplay between natural and sexual selections shaped birds' tails from their earliest history, yuanchuavis is the first documented occurrence of a pintail in Enantiornithes, the most successful group of Mesozoic birds.

Wang Min

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The divergence will likely continue this year, at its earliest, it may take until the middle of next year for the economy to recover to pre-coronavirus levels.

Ayako Sera

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The way the program is now scheduled, children who are elementary school, 6 to 12, that group of individuals... those individuals will not be able to be vaccinated until their trials are finished, which will likely be at the earliest, the end of this year, more likely the first quarter of 2022.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We fear that there will be inevitably a chilling effect on my efforts to bring the parties together, the decision will contribute to the prospect of famine in Yemen and should be revoked based on humanitarian grounds at the earliest opportunity.

Martin Griffiths

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Drivers have been among the earliest people to be exposed to Covid, we've lost so many drivers.

Bhairavi Desai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a study out of China where they looked at some of the earliest patients, some 200 patients, they found that digestive or stomach GI (gastrointestinal) symptoms were actually there in about half the patients.

Sanjay Guptas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The earliest calendar year landfalling named storm in Louisiana on record( since 1851) is Tropical Storm Arlene on May 30, 1959, the 2nd earliest landfalling named storms in LA are unnamed tropical storms in 1912 1956 on June 13.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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