as in yet
up to this or that time
having been heretofore unwilling to fly, he was forced to make an exception for his brother's out-of-state wedding
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Recent Examples of heretofore
Sai is either working on some strategic level heretofore unseen in this or any other international edition of Survivor ever produced, or just blew her opportunity to seize control of this tribe.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s weed and benzos strewn on the coffee table, Ji-Na telling Fatima to run away fast, that she can’t be fixed, implying some kind of debilitating depression or mental illness Fatima’s Korean-French girlfriend was heretofore able to keep at bay.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
And yet the invitation to explore Surrealism without Breton has the potential to be more generative than curators have heretofore allowed (even without entering into fantasies that his adversaries beat him up and chased him out of town).
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
And, just like that, the audience gets to see a side of Ellie heretofore rarely revealed.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 31 Mar. 2025
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s weed and benzos strewn on the coffee table, Ji-Na telling Fatima to run away fast, that she can’t be fixed, implying some kind of debilitating depression or mental illness Fatima’s Korean-French girlfriend was heretofore able to keep at bay.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
And yet the invitation to explore Surrealism without Breton has the potential to be more generative than curators have heretofore allowed (even without entering into fantasies that his adversaries beat him up and chased him out of town).
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
And, just like that, the audience gets to see a side of Ellie heretofore rarely revealed.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heretofore
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Currently, there is no data indicating the containment progress of the fire and its cause has yet to be determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
5 July 2025
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This was brought up yet again with a slew of cancellations that brought up more examples of this, but looking back, this is a pattern, and the question now, is how are we supposed to trust anything Xbox says?—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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“Heretofore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heretofore. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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