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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an earlier form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a previous version or iteration of something, such as a text, concept, or object.
Example: "The manuscript we found is an earlier form of the novel that was later published."
Alternatives: "a prior version" or "a previous iteration."
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Both may be alterations of an earlier form, "spitten image".
In an earlier form, the umpires union also clashed heatedly with management.
So was Behind the Sun a tribute to an earlier form of Brazilian cinema?
Apes, he has said, are "like a smoky, warped mirror of who we are, in an earlier form".
So deindustrialization may have arrived at an end point where disused turf is reclaimed for an earlier form of economy.
Throughout this history, in not one instance did a new form of mass media replace an earlier form".
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An exhibition with 35 cyanotypes, an early form of photography that gave prints a bluish hue.
It was actually an early form of restrictive practice.
Land societies were an early form of mutual: a way of sharing resources for mutual benefit.
In pursuing trade far and wide, they promoted an early form of globalization.
She underwent an early form of gender reassignment surgery in 1930.
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