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hitherto

[hith-er-too] / ˈhɪð ərˌtu /




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To their initial astonishment, they have attracted a far wider viewership spanning all ages, even followers who hitherto had only scant interest in ballet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Karl Marx asserted that “philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world . . . the point, however, is to change it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

She reset to break Pegula's hitherto dominant serve, but was broken back straight away with her fourth double fault of the contest.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The commodity boom, especially pronounced in gold and other metals, is generating some remarkable statistics and dramatically revising some hitherto well-established ratios.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

This haul was in effect the start of the twentieth century’s Vivaldi revival and a great flowering of musicological interest in this hitherto all but forgotten master.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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