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Discover LudwigThe phrase "and hitherto" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time up to the present or until now, often in formal or literary contexts.
Example: "The research has been inconclusive, and hitherto, no definitive answers have emerged."
Alternatives: "up to this point" or "until now."
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She herself reports that she was "carried away by an undreamed-of and hitherto unimagined whirlwind".
Shale has certainly revolutionised the US market, releasing vast, and hitherto uneconomic reserves.
That the voter was a widow and hitherto a Labour supporter only made it worse.
American trainers were out, and hitherto uncool local brands were in.
The once noble and hitherto ungeeky pastime of football album completion has entered the realms of the nerdishly unwell.
The public is barred in all cases, and hitherto only magistrates courts were open to the press.
For citizens of such a rich and (hitherto) stable country to be arming themselves at this rate is collective insanity.
That's all before the programme's primary premise: climbing the most forbidding (and hitherto unconquered) mountain Venezuela can offer.
In this context, it is time for a real — and hitherto untested — political push by Western actors.
So it has come to rely on Argentina's cheap and hitherto abundant natural gas for two-fifths of its electricity.
Now, word of another surprise move from the Communities minister – and hitherto title-holder in the Parliamentary Pool Championship.
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