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Example Sentences
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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
Labour, who had not hitherto lost an election in the area since 1931, fell into third place.
From BBC
For Willits’s New Jersey friends, she finally agreed to attempt “mysteries hitherto unknown in the age of the world.”
From Literature
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By the 1930s, parents began reporting the hitherto unseen phenomenon of children rejecting their meals.
Karl Marx asserted that “philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world . . . the point, however, is to change it.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.