theretofore

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ADVERB
  1. up to that time
    they had not done any work theretofore
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How To Use theretofore In A Sentence

  • But he also felt that regulation and government-orchestrated ‘cooperation’ within industry was needed to a theretofore unprecedented extent.
  • The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party.
  • Ader's craft was perhaps the smallest theretofore used in such an attempt, and both art and extreme sport figured in his planned voyage.
  • Seemingly this was a company which had retained earnings, no doubt earnings which it had not theretofore distributed by way of dividends and which therefore it may be supposed it had, in effect, reinvested in its business.
  • Much of the expansion of Perseus' influence was at the expense of Eumenes II of Pergamum, widely and correctly perceived theretofore as a supporter of Rome.
  • When the archforger Hans van Meegeren undertook to hoodwink the experts by painting what they accepted as a theretofore unknown Vermeer, his motives were more devious than those of the ordinary counterfeiter.
  • It was a business book from the late 1980s built around an exceptional and theretofore little-understood premise: that most people who start a business aren't entrepreneurs.
  • Cockerington Princess, champion of her own sex, also came to gladden our eyes, while the converting into stables of theretofore unused stone winery buildings went apace .... Jack London's Old Sherry Building Converted to Horse Barn
  • Maybe for a scintilla of time that is correct, but there is no reason to suppose in theory that the common law did not impose itself immediately in place of the system of enforcement which was theretofore available.
  • He began where others left off, and thus saved the many thousands of dollars that it had theretofore been customary to spend in building and fitting expensive engines to machines which were uncontrollable when tried.
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