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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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.
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Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Amidst the requests for the Gucci Dionysus and the Prada Cleo was a French brand heretofore unknown to him: Polène.
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The assignment of boarding zones, meant to quell the crowd, has heretofore been unsuccessful due to a lack of enforcement on the part of the airlines.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Amidst the requests for the Gucci Dionysus and the Prada Cleo was a French brand heretofore unknown to him: Polène.
—Camille Freestone, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
The assignment of boarding zones, meant to quell the crowd, has heretofore been unsuccessful due to a lack of enforcement on the part of the airlines.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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