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heretofore

[heer-tuh-fawr, -fohr] / ˌhɪər təˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊr /


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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

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

But Gerry's lament is drawn from a cask of finely aged romance no twenty- or thirtysomething could possibly access, a heretofore unknown cocktail on this show.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2023

The prestige-competition, heretofore mostly economic, might force Karhide to emulate its larger neighbor, to become a nation instead of a family quarrel, as Estraven had said; to become, as Estraven had also said, patriotic.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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