Usually means: Eventually, at some unspecified time.
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  1. sooner or later: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sooner or later: Merriam-Webster
  3. sooner or later: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sooner or later: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sooner or later: Wordnik
  6. sooner or later: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sooner or later: Wiktionary
  8. sooner or later: Dictionary.com
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  10. sooner or later: Rhymezone
  11. sooner or later: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sooner or later: ESL Idiom Page
  13. Sooner or later: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sooner or later: Idioms

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  1. sooner or later: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sooner or later)

▸ adverb:  (set phrase) Eventually, at some undetermined time in the not-too-distant future.

Similar:
eventually, one of these days, yet, In Time, one day, tomorrow, sometime, mañana, soonish, paulo post futurum, more...

Opposite:
immediately, promptly, instantly, without delay, right away

Types:
eventually, in due time, in fullness of time, in time, later on, someday, more...

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Similar:
eventually, one of these days, yet, In Time, one day, tomorrow, sometime, mañana, soonish, paulo post futurum, more...

Opposite:
immediately, promptly, instantly, without delay, right away

Types:
eventually, in due time, in fullness of time, in time, later on, someday, more...



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