up till

idiom

: during the time or period before
Up till now, everything has gone very well.

Examples of up till in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And those drawings are in many of the Off Color concepts right up till the end. Michaela Zee, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023 The most likely chance of thunderstorms in D-FW is after midnight into early Wednesday morning — likely up till 9 a.m., Langfeld added. Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023 Campbell, a former bartender, also operates The Standard Pour, just down the street from Parliament, and up till recently, The Clover Club, on Cedar Springs. Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 24 July 2023 But while there is no dearth of World War II historical fiction, up till now Black women’s contributions to the war effort have received little attention. Carole V. Bell, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023 From the beginning years up till now, dogs are accepted from animal control and from locals and visitors who find stray dogs. Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2023 But that is the vision that has remained with us up till the 20th century when the great identity crisis of the nation-state drew on the history of our ancestors and bent it to their own needs for order and superiority. Lorenzo Cecioni, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2023 India’s worst rail accident up till now happened in August 1995, when two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people. Ravi Mishra, NBC News, 3 June 2023 Because up till the 1800s, people hadn’t really been living in cities. Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023 See More

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“Up till.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up%20till. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.

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