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up until

up until preposition: until.

Preposition

up until

  1. (informal) until
    • It's easy to see why he was confused — up until that point, you didn't have popular bands coming out with makeup on.2002, Gene Simmons, Kiss and Make-Up, page 87
    • Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.
      Up until that moment...2020 September 2, Raphael Satter, “U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal”, in Tom Brown, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, Media & Telecoms
    Synonyms:
    up to

Synonyms of up until

Questions about up until

What does up until mean?
Up until means until.
What part of speech is up until?
Up until is a preposition.

Words near up until in the dictionary

  1. up to the mark
  2. up to the nines
  3. up to the tonsils
  4. up to time
  5. up top
  6. up until
  7. up what spring
  8. up with the chickens
  9. up with the lark
  10. up with the larks
  11. up your ass

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