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
This in turn could yield the hitherto elusive cost savings.
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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This effort could reveal hitherto undiscovered and unexpected patterns of movement, like vortices around the poles of the sun similar to those spotted above the poles of Venus and Saturn.
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Standards have hitherto required solar inverters to shut down at the first hint of line trouble, in order to protect workers from unanticipated currents.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2015
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And yet, the Panthers’ third-round pick from Ole Miss felt the entire weight of Carolina’s 34-31 loss to the Los Angeles Rams.—
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Batherson had yet another chance to break the deadlock later in the same powerplay, but found the far post with a wide open net in front of him.—
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Undertone helmer Tuason is a Toronto-based creative heretofore best known for his live-action virtual reality horror shorts, which have garnered over 14M organic views on YouTube.—
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But the movie cannot shed his woolly energy, which puts any no-name side character at risk of dropping an impassioned soliloquy about some heretofore-unexamined personal drama.—
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“Hitherto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hitherto. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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