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A month later, the Resolution and another ship, the Adventure, set sail under Cook’s command to the southern oceans in search of a hitherto unknown continent, fancifully known as Terra Australis Incognita.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI will join SpaceX at the US mega-corp top table – exerting hitherto unseen power and influence across the globe and unprecedented dominion over its citizens if its champions are to be believed.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
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
A poorly cleared corner followed by an unfortunate deflection proved fatal to the hitherto impenetrable Parisian defence.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
Suddenly it seemed that there was a hitherto unacknowledged problem with the word ‘revolution’ and indeed with the word ‘science’, too, for these are our words, not theirs.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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