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Example Sentences

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On the subject of AI replacing heretofore normal human activities, Mr. Amodei, born in 1983, writes with the wide-eyed wonder of a high-school-aged techno-utopian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Some of America’s best-known consumer companies, including UnitedHealth Group, Target, Best Buy, 3M and General Mills have chosen the windy, cold and snowy — but heretofore tranquil — state for their headquarters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

“We want to take the heretofore somewhat passive experience of going into a theater, and we want to expand that and give people a chance to do other things and have fun,” Brein said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

People laugh as a psychological defense mechanism when confronted by a reality that they cannot reconcile and resolve with their expectation of what they heretofore deemed to be normal.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

It might get noised about that the Pontel- liers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their manage on a humbler scale than heretofore.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin