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• The former is a good idea but the latter is not.From the entry former
• Note the difference between progesterone and progrestogen: the former is simply a type of the latter.From the entry note
• Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.From the entry salvation
• The party's staunchest stalwarts constitute the President's redoubtable bulwark against the latter bribery accusations.From the entry stalwart
• Humans can metabolize both aerobically and anaerobically, the latter generally in high stress situations.From the entry anaerobically
• Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.From the entry mitral
• He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former.From the entry silver spoon
• A form of these lissoneoids somewhat resemble the trochoidal forms, the latter being more hollow than the former.From the entry lissoneoid
• French loyal and légal are both from Latin lēgālis. While the former was inherited, the latter is a book word.From the entry book word
• In all but colouring, the Ancona is a very similar bird to the Leghorn. It was imported from Italy probably some years before the latter. See ref. p.43.From the entry ancona
• The Parthian Empire became involved in an extended period of conflict with the Roman Republic and Empire that lasted for three centuries, until the latter eventually prevailed.From the entry Parthian Empire
• The latter has been found to be an unapproved food additive.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN. From the entry tara
• The latter features citrus-soy beef, Maui onion sauce and ginger scallion sauce.2024 August 21, Kelli Shiroma Braiotta, “Filipino food with a twist”, in Crave (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), Honolulu, Haw., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry bistek
• The valley marks the exact location where the latter overlaps the former.2022 February 16, Stephanie Chiang, “Magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolts east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry Huadong Valley
• Barton Haynes, an immunologist with Duke University’s Human Vaccine Institute, called the latter approach “whack-a-mole.”2022 January 24, David Axe, “COVID’s Turbo-Mutation Is Killing This Vax Dream, So What’s Next?”, in The Daily Beast. From the entry pan-Covid
• Many here call Russian soldiers "orcs" or "Rushists," the latter a twist on "fascists."2022 June 2, “Ukraine agonizes over Russian culture and language in its social fabric”, in NPR. From the entry rushist
• The latter looked around forlornly for help but none of us dared to get involved.2022 November 24, Simon Scarrow, Warrior: The Druids' Lair: Part Two of the Roman Caratacus series, Headline, →ISBN. From the entry Cadrus
• The latter issue dramatizes the long shadow Brexit is casting on Mr.2021 June 14, Mark Landler, “Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ Makes Shaky Start at G7 Summit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry rebrand
• The latter includes a basal disc and a tiny periderm beaker enveloping the pedal region.2020, Fatma El-Bawab, Invertebrate Embryology and Reproduction, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 251. From the entry hypostome
• While the latter derive their moral criteria from birth, environmentalists and musealists derive them from choice.2020, Ingo Niermann, “Wet Gods”, in Solution 295-304: Mare Amoris, Sternberg Press, →ISBN, pages 94–95. From the entry musealist
• At the end of the latter, Yorke happily led an audience singalong.2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in Katharine Viner, editor…. From the entry doubtless
• The latter is eventually averaged over the gyrophase to produce Littlejohn's guiding-center equations.2016, Cesare Tronci, “From liquid crystal models to the guiding-center theory of magnetized plasmas”, in arXiv. From the entry gyrophase
• The two played good cop–bad cop, with the Putin-type playing the latter role.2016, Conor O'Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times, Poolbeg Press Ltd. From the entry good cop–bad cop
• Whereas these latter would stand and fight off the corsairs, the Provençaux would flee or strike sails.2015, Peter N. Miller, Peiresc’s Mediterranean World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry Provençaux
• Germarium and vitellarium are distinct and the latter contains one or two small, immature basal oocytes.2015 July 8, “Convergent Reduction of Ovariole Number Associated with Subterranean Life in Beetles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry vitellarium
• It is unclear in what sense the former is supposed to be “more intense” than the latter.2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness. From the entry slumbersome
• The latter character system suggests another interpretation of the metapostnotum delimitation.2015 October 15, “Evolution of Metapostnotum in Flat Wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae): Implications for Homology Assessments in…. From the entry metapostnotum
• The latter is her “outside” child in reference to her conjugal tie at the time.2014, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, Gender, Kinship and Power, page 256. From the entry outside
• The latter group misinterprets ambiguous social stimuli, misblames others, and often responds with inappropriate anger-aggravated hostility.2013, Philip David Zelazo, The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 2. From the entry misblame
• In the latter group, the axoplast is surrounded by the nucleus.2012, O. Roger Anderson, Radiolaria, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry axoplast
• Wen-Ping Chen at the National Central University in Jhongli, Taiwan, and his team argue for the latter.2012 June 14, “A new world is born”, in Nature, volume 486, number 7402, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 161, column 2. From the entry Jhongli
• The latter was still blowable, and spoke after half a century's silence.2011, Franklin M. Garrett, Atlanta and Environs. From the entry blowable
• Try to destressify a tense situation as the latter puts hurdles on the thinking process.2011, Raj Gopal Katju, 40 Stress Busters for Executives, New Delhi: Pustak Mahal, →ISBN. From the entry destressify
• The latter roads run along steep mountainsides before dropping into Shihting (石碇; Shídìng).2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 119…. From the entry Shihting
• The latter form is used by the Twelve Tribes of Israel in their dance sessions.2010, Leonard Barrett, The Rastafarians, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry heartical

Meaning of latter

1. adjective Near (or nearer) to the end.
2. adjective In the past, but close (or closer) to the present time.
3. noun The second of aforementioned two items.

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Questions about latter in a sentence

How do you use latter in a sentence?

Latter is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “In his latter years my dad became very absent-minded.”

What is a short sentence with latter?

“the latter part of the century”

What does latter mean?

Latter means near (or nearer) to the end.