formerly
IPA: fˈɔrmɝɫi
adverb
- at some time in the past
- previously; once
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Examples of "formerly" in Sentences
- Fisher can win the Dubai World Championship, but isn't guaranteed the title formerly called Order
- The term formerly most used to describe existing illegal Israeli "settlements" and their expansion was "natural growth".
- The label formerly known as Sony BMG is now officially owned by Sony Corp., according to confirmations issued Wednesday.
- Germany applied to Easter the same title formerly given to the season of the sacred king's love-death, Hoch-Zeit, "the High Time."
- McGraw-Hill (2008) ¹ I am indebted to Virginia C. Eidenmuller for correcting the original misspelling of the French word formerly appearing in this transcript.
- At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called formerly a "nervous fever."
- In a term formerly reserved for the Kurds of the northern Middle East, Peter Bergen has said that the Pashtuns are in fact the world's largest group of people without a state.
- An old marquise made use of a term formerly in vogue at court to express the flowery beauty of the fops and beaux of the olden time, whose language and demeanor were social laws: she called him “the pink of fashion.”
- The UN leader on Friday ended a 10-day personal trip to his native Ghana, where he had conferred on him a title formerly reserved only for the Ashanti king, making him one of the most senior and powerful traditional rulers in his home country.
- Now with regard to My Macy's, particularly in the Midwest and in markets -- I hate to use the word formerly serviced by May Department stores, are there kind of particular adjustments that are taking place to address the somewhat less affluent customer than, let's say, Macy's would have been catering to and might have adjusted the inventory towards after the acquisition?
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