up to

Definition of up tonext
as in until
during the period before and continuing to (a particular time) She was unsure of what to do and deliberated up to the last moment about whether to accept the job offer.

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Recent Examples of up to These clusters of wild mushrooms can grow extremely big, up to 40-plus-inches wide. Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026 For an involuntary manslaughter charge, a person could be sentenced to up to four years behind bars. Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 There’s like this neuroendocrine reflex that goes from the skin up to the brain back to the tissue. Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026 The building is designed to eventually house up to one million AI accelerators and deliver one million PFLOPS of computing power. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for up to
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  • About a half dozen of them became fugitives, and the FBI spent a number of years up till now still trying to catch them.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

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“Up to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/up%20to. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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