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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have hitherto" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English, although it is somewhat formal and may not be commonly used in everyday speech.
It means "up until now" or "until this point." Example: The company's profits have hitherto been steadily increasing, but the recent economic downturn has caused a decline.
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These criteria have hitherto been applied solely to things.
Even his stepmother thought Feuerbach "vain beyond anything I have hitherto seen".
For we have hitherto mostly focused on breakfast made for oneself.
Strips of copper like these, it seems, have hitherto not been known.
"My martyrdom is more trying than any I have hitherto experienced," he grumbled.
"I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises," Thoreau wrote in "Walden".
Conservative news sites continued to mock the President that they have hitherto supported.
They have hitherto held back so as not to upset China.
The Chinese have hitherto been among the least politically conspicuous of Britain's ethnic minorities.
But this leads to two other phenomena, which physicists have hitherto been unable to explain.
Catholic services have hitherto been held only in the Basque section of the Republican domain.
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