no sooner

idiom

—used to emphasize the short time in which something happens

I had no sooner walked through the door when the phone rang.

No sooner did I walk through the door than the phone rang.

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With the iPhone range rumored to be getting an under-display Face ID camera no sooner than 2026, Google could upstage Apple’s finest with a notchless facial biometrics system that works as well as the current iPhone implementation. —

Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 Large ordered that Stanley’s disbarment take effect no sooner than Nov. 1. —

Max Levy, The Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2024 While Starship’s ultimate destination is Mars, the more immediate aim—with $4 billion in funding from NASA—is taking astronauts to the moon in the space agency’s upcoming Artemis 3 mission scheduled for launch no sooner than 2026, per the New York Times’ Kenneth Chang and Eric Lipton. —

Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024 In a report published by Reuters, Etihad Airways could make its stock market debut no sooner than 2025. —

Shafi Musaddique, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for no sooner