by that time
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The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Of course, by that time, everyone had moved on.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Stokes and McCullum publicly backed each other at the end of the Ashes, but by that time had given differing messages to the media, fuelling suggestions of a rift.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
But one person had a propensity to announce to everyone at the beginning of the call that she had a “hard stop” at 2 p.m., so we had to wrap up by that time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
And by that time the prisoners—a dozen or so men, shivering and blinking and huddling together—had come out.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
