{
  "id": "already.temporal",
  "term": "already",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "by now a happen event that was previous",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "previous.temporal",
      "time.dimension",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "event.occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "the earlier event combines with the present moment to show it occurred before now",
    "novel_properties": [
      "prior occurrence relative to now",
      "completedness before the present",
      "temporal anteriority marked"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is already beyond the heliosphere, sending data from interstellar space.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "By 2023, Nepal had already transitioned most of its government services to digital platforms under its Digital Nepal Framework.",
      "domain": "governance"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan had already ruptured a 400-kilometer segment of the subduction zone before warnings reached Tokyo.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "already"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive component event.occurrence (L3) which the definition implicitly relies on; kept definition as is, with original wording to preserve intended meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-already.temporal"
}