adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unknown
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This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers.
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We are amid corruption of a hitherto unknown scale but not without some precedent.
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But Brindley's canal from the coal-mines at Worsley to Manchester had several features hitherto unknown .
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Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.
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It now remains to ask whether there is any significance in this hitherto unknown fact.
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No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation, but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism.
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Recently a hitherto unknown phenomenon has appeared in Illela: property speculation.
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This meant seeking out even more diverse wines from hitherto unknown sources, which further taxed the new-found art of blending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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French astronomers have found a hitherto unknown galaxy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fourth gallery hitherto not previously in these columns is Gisela Capitain, at Apostelnstrasse 19.
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In order to ingratiate himself with the populace, he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
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Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.
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It is received with fear; for it threatens that comforting security and certainty which hitherto have shaped our actions.
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They have hitherto been the most generally used in clinical trials.