as in yet
up to this or that time
at the talent show Kyle revealed his hitherto unknown gift for doing impressions
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Recent Examples of hitherto
In April, Tunisia’s president agreed to bilateral visits with his Iranian equivalent, shifting a hitherto largely military relationship toward an economic one in which Tunisia will become a gateway for new Iranian exports to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Jamsheed K. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 20 July 2023
Eventually, Lydia Harris was forced to file suit against Knight, revealing the actual origin story of Death Row Records’ and the hitherto unknown players involved.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Such gene editing might remove undesirable traits or adapt humans to conditions hitherto unachievable by natural means, such as being able to breathe underwater or survive unaided in other extreme conditions, Gee writes.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Rather than wait for the cavalry to arrive in the unlikely form of a bunch of hitherto untapped categories, the sales guys instead chopped the commercial running times in half, thereby making their inventory a great deal more affordable.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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Jamsheed K. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 20 July 2023
Eventually, Lydia Harris was forced to file suit against Knight, revealing the actual origin story of Death Row Records’ and the hitherto unknown players involved.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Such gene editing might remove undesirable traits or adapt humans to conditions hitherto unachievable by natural means, such as being able to breathe underwater or survive unaided in other extreme conditions, Gee writes.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Rather than wait for the cavalry to arrive in the unlikely form of a bunch of hitherto untapped categories, the sales guys instead chopped the commercial running times in half, thereby making their inventory a great deal more affordable.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hitherto
Adverb
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The idea was seen as an impossibility, Xu said, because scientists hadn’t yet figured out a way to precisely target a treatment area to control the process of cavitation.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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The departments of Veterans Affairs, Energy, and Labor have yet to make their reports publicly available.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
18 May 2025
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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
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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
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“Hitherto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitherto. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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