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UP TO NOW
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
Example:
the sun isn't up yet
Synonyms:
as yet; heretofore; hitherto; so far; thus far; til now; until now; up to now; yet
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Prior to the present time
Example:
no suspect has been found to date
Synonyms:
to date; up to now
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Context examples:
I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say:—for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
