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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Fredric Jameson represents something like the lapping at the shoreline, which doesn’t go away and never ceases to turn up interesting things: shells, coins, and specimens of marine life heretofore unseen.
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Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Everything in his heretofore turbulent life has fallen into place.
—Lisa Henricksson, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 14 Nov. 2024
Its music videos, which had heretofore been so art-school obscure that MTV barely played them, were now high-budget fantasias with Stipe front and center, undulating like a Robert Longo painting come to life.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Everything in his heretofore turbulent life has fallen into place.
—Lisa Henricksson, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 14 Nov. 2024
Its music videos, which had heretofore been so art-school obscure that MTV barely played them, were now high-budget fantasias with Stipe front and center, undulating like a Robert Longo painting come to life.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for heretofore
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“Heretofore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heretofore. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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