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heretofore

adverb as in before this time

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The battlelines of this drama have largely been confined to planning board rooms, heretofore.

This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

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As if we haven’t endured enough in the past year, we’re currently living through what will heretofore be known as The Great Bicycle Shortage of 2021, which means complete bicycles, as well as parts, have been hard to come by.

And, ok, it has been abused in heretofore unimaginable ways by the eternally crusty Mitch McConnell, but, still, it must be kept if we're to be a bipartisan nation.

In the film’s climax, Nixon — who has heretofore taken manly pride in never crying — kneels with Henry Kissinger and prays.

Increasingly, many women are choosing to remain single—heretofore something rare in these countries.

Gone, too, are the heretofore immutable protections of intellectual property rights.

Phoenix is a revelation in the role, reaching heretofore unforeseen levels of emotional vulnerability.

Despite increasing diplomatic and military cooperation, “a strategic energy alliance has remained heretofore unconsummated.”

The intersection is essentially between the Brotherhood, the military, the revolutionaries, and the heretofore silent majority.

At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience.

I can perceive none, even though the steamships should still proceed to Liverpool as heretofore.

In all cases you must carefully comply with the rules‌ and explanations heretofore given.

As shown heretofore, the pupil must know the facts, and the System will then help him to fix their date.

This class of stop is also now finding its way into organs more generally than heretofore.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heretofore, such as: formerly, previously, before, before this, since, and so far.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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