Synonyms for earliest
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1. earlier, earliestadverb

   (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early

   "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

   Synonyms:
   earlier

   Antonyms:
   middle, late

2. soonest, earliestadverb

   with the least delay

   "the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."

   Synonyms:
   soonest

   Antonyms:
   middle, late

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1. List of paraphrases for "earliest":

   oldest, first, closest, nearest, shortest

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1. Michelle Mousa:

   Tuesday is the absolute earliest that they could leave because of this travel permit.

2. William Bottke:

   In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it.

3. Ayako Sera:

   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.

4. Martha McSally:

   Importantly, while funding for this project was authorized and appropriated in FY19, it is no longer an FY19 project due to unforeseen environmental issues at the construction site, the Army had to complete a major environmental cleanup before the actual construction project could be awarded. At the earliest, this pushed the award back to summer of FY20. The environmental cleanup is expected to continue until August 2020.

5. John Mather:

   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.