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until English

Meaning until meaning

What does until mean?
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until

If something is true until mathx/math, it is true for some time before mathx/math and then is not true. We didn't have any snow until the end of December. He worked until he was 72 years old. Until now, there was nothing we could do.

until

Up to the time of (something happening). Before (a time). before

until

Up to the time that (a condition becomes true). before

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Simple sentences

He asked me to wait there until he came back.
You might as well wait until Tuesday.
Although we waited until ten o'clock, Bill never showed up.
He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
I'll wait here until she comes.
I will sit here until he sings.
I'll stay until tomorrow.
Something you should know about me is that I stay up until late at night.
Do you plan to work until 10:00?
Tom's parents don't want Tom and Mary to live together until after they are married.
The accused is innocent until proven guilty.
Tom told me that Mary was good at playing the piano, but I didn't really believe him until I heard her play.
Wait until I finish eating.
It doesn't start until eight thirty.
Everything is theoretically impossible until it's done.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.
You are to stay here until we come back.
She did not eat anything until she was rescued.
You can not appreciate the poem until you have read it many times.
The meeting was put off until next Friday.
The meeting was adjourned until the next week.
The meeting lasted until 5.
I hadn't recognized the importance of this document until you told me about it.
You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.
Go straight ahead until you reach the church.
You should continue until you're satisfied.
The meeting has been put off until next week.
The meeting was adjourned until the following week.

Movie subtitles

I was a student up until last week.
Until last week? Then, what are you now?
Nothing remotely so accurate existed in england until the 1 4th century.
That was until an underwater explorer, who discovered the Titanic, also helped discover something else deep in the ocean.
Until when are you thinking of making a laughing stock out of me?
Until I give you a separate message, please stay inside.
Until the day you die, you'll have to carry the memories of those murders, and live as a murderer.
Magistrate, we will never forget this until we die.
Until the debt is paid, they're going to keep getting harassed.
Until now, you had to follow me everywhere like lightning.
Doing things on sly until now.
Not until we've cleared it, please.
Or, well, I was until.
Yes, which also means we have until he gets to the bottom of his latte to get him back on board.
Until last week?
All right, listen, the kid doesn't eat until you do it.
Then the Mighty Irish push them out, until the Wops and the Jews take over.
You can stay until your flight, I guess.
Because I'm not leaving until you're better.
What am I supposed to do until you wake up?
I'm gonna bounce in that castle until I puke!
Yeah, it's like. it's fun to ride, until someone sees you on it.
Until I die?
Until you wake up and realize that, I'm going to Philly to stay with my mother.
Up until now, I've done nothing but torment every one of you.
We'll escort you until they come pick you up.
But since none of us have identical powers, one never knows what that ability might be until such point and time that it's awakened.
Frankie, on my father's life, Until you realize our right to share the soccer pitch, we will continue to sting you, and sting you like a swarm of killer bees. Okay, okay, come on, come on.
Not until we get some kind of legal representation.
Then when exactly do I have to hide until?
HE JUST WANTS HIM OUT OF THE WAY UNTIL WE'RE DONE. THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HIM?
Doing things on sly until now. is that what tied your lives together?
I was with Obaba until just now.
I can't be slinging drinks to losers until I'm like 60 years old.
It's been easy until now, Bernie.
And I also feel that, for her own sake, Nurse Crane should stand down from duties until - the situation is resolved.
The police are investigating the accident and her car has been impounded until further notice.

News and current affairs

Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.
Until now, Russia has cared less about a new PCA than the EU, because two-thirds of Russia's exports to the Union comprise natural resources, which bring in cash even without the strong rules that a PCA provides.
CAMBRIDGE - Until recently, cyber security has primarily interested computer geeks and cloak-and-dagger types.
Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu's ideals are unlikely to take root.
After all, wasn't Italy, until 1860s, a collection of kingdoms and principalities?
Much of Europe seems to be stuck in the same mindset: we say that we want a common foreign and security policy, but we do nothing about it until a crisis emerges.
They explained that until recently this was a perennial river - one that flows throughout the year - but now the river stops flowing during the dry season.
Until then, water-starved communities dig for water, if they can find it and if they can afford to pump it out.
From the late 1970's until 2007, the financial sector grew far more rapidly than the real economy.
The West must stick with Afghanistan until its reconstruction is established.
That will not change until a new consciousness emerges worldwide to persuade states to support binding international law.
These countries need to recognize that if the US and the UK do implement even modest reforms, a lot of capital will flow elsewhere, potentially overwhelming regulatory systems that seemed to work well until now.
Let's hope that when the G-20 leaders meet later this year, they decide to take the problem seriously instead of tabling discussion for a decade or two until the next crisis is upon us.
Until recently, the Spanish authorities maintained that the problems in their country's real-estate sector were temporary.
Irish workers are leaving in droves to Canada, Australia, and the United States. Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.
Until Afghanistan's leaders begin to address this problem seriously, our country will continue to bear the scar of violence against women on its face.
If employment began rising at this rate in 2010, it would take until 2015 before it reached its pre-recession level.
This arrangement remained intact until 1973, when Nigeria adopted a new currency, the naira.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
Until recently, few believed that Africa, too, could become a center for modern manufacturing.
Moses wandered with his people in the desert for 40 years, until they had rid themselves of the poisonous slave mentality.

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