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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Now drop him into the brave new world of AI, where thievery can be accomplished with an ease and at a magnitude heretofore unimagined.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
Stories abounded about users’ discoveries of heretofore unknown ethnic backgrounds or even discovering unknown relatives.
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Two: More Onus On Employers The Green Paper sets out guidelines for a consultation on Access to Work, which has heretofore been exclusively for employees.
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Having been brought up with her own worry around these creatures, the practice of unlearning also allows Tenzen to consider her own voice in matters that heretofore seemed out of her control.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
Stories abounded about users’ discoveries of heretofore unknown ethnic backgrounds or even discovering unknown relatives.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Two: More Onus On Employers The Green Paper sets out guidelines for a consultation on Access to Work, which has heretofore been exclusively for employees.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Having been brought up with her own worry around these creatures, the practice of unlearning also allows Tenzen to consider her own voice in matters that heretofore seemed out of her control.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
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 23 Apr. 2025.
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