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Its arrival also marks the resurrection of Criterion’s invaluable Eclipse line, a no-frills, hitherto exclusively DVD series that bundled often-obscure titles, usually grouped by director.
Similar terra-cotta examples existed, he said, but bronze versions were hitherto unknown.
From New York Times
No class appears to be stirred so deeply as the great middle class, the real strength of the country and the hitherto solid prop of the monarchy.
From Seattle Times
The GOP has attracted to its base the hitherto apolitical and disregarded: rednecks living off the grid, armed-to-the-teeth survivalists, psychopathic grifters and con artists, violent criminals, borderline psychotics, incels in their mothers' basements.
From Salon
It has won 15 of the 17 cases it has hitherto taken to the highest court.
From Washington Post
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