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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
Labour, who had not hitherto lost an election in the area since 1931, fell into third place.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
By the 1930s, parents began reporting the hitherto unseen phenomenon of children rejecting their meals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
A poorly cleared corner followed by an unfortunate deflection proved fatal to the hitherto impenetrable Parisian defence.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
About 45,000 years ago, they somehow crossed the open sea and landed in Australia—a continent hitherto untouched by humans.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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