Later
Later adverb - Following in time or place.
Now
Now adverb - At the present time.
Later is an antonym for now in topics: immediately, presently, at the present, in the immediate future.
Both words in one sentence
- We All Die Someday: It's either now or later, and if someone is in his way it might as well be now.
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And you may also need to go through an Airstrike Impossible segment now or later.
Source: Sadistic Choice / Video Games -
It asks him if he wants to be twice as smart as everybody else in Mainframe now or later.
Source: Western Animation / ReBoot
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