UNTIL NOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does until now mean? 

• UNTIL NOW (adverb)
  The adverb UNTIL NOW has 1 sense:

1. used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time

  Familiarity information: UNTIL NOW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTIL NOW (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

Synonyms:

as yet; heretofore; hitherto; so far; thus far; til now; until now; up to now; yet

Context example:

the sun isn't up yet

 Context examples 

Moreover, the association between a higher estimated enzyme activity with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases hasn't been established in children until now.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

How you will feel at the eclipses depends on how things have been going up until now, for those events will influence the outcome.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

However, until now no definitive evidence has existed for intermediate-mass black holes that could indicate a middle step between the small and massive black holes already detected.

(Astronomers Find New Evidence for Long-theorized Mid-sized Black Holes, VOA News)

Curiously, it hasn't been clear until now what alpha-synuclein actually does in the cell: why it's there and what it's meant to do.

(Calcium May Play A Role in Development of Parkinson's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists mostly study modern virus strains and we have mainly been in the dark regarding ancient sequences – until now.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

I had not been serious with her; having no idea until now, that she was serious herself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Until now, we have had very little information on suicide risk among patients after they leave the emergency department.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

However, until now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Until now there has been limited understanding of how the placenta is altered by advanced maternal age.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

However, until now relatively little was known about the effects of mild-to-moderate hearing loss during childhood.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)