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A management pratfall to spoil Netflix’s heretofore reputation as a maker of smart moves?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Feldman did too as the season kicked off, but he might have lasted longer if he drew on some heretofore hidden reservoir of dazzle.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024
“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
When I turn toward the sound, Rose—a slender, mousy girl who has heretofore been mostly silent—is still poised with her hand in the air, fingers now emptied of cutlery.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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