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How to pronounce “heretofore”

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Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of heretofore with real speech in context.
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6 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic 26 minutesblindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.
Definition summary
(formal, temporal) Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point.

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How to pronounce heretofore

Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic 26 minutes

blindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.

Example Sentences

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Meaning

  • [Adverb]
  • (formal, temporal) Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point.
  • (metatextual) Previously within the present text; earlier herein.

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