not until
idiom
: not before
Not until you finish your homework can you go outside.
When you finish your homework you can go outside, but not until then.
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Blood Tribe had been focused on the town for months, but not until prominent X accounts (including Musk’s, J. D. Vance’s, and Trump’s) seized on a Facebook post from the region did Springfield beoame a national target.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
But with the deadline not until, February, there is a lot of time to figure things out.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
The conceit of Here, which was adapted from the comic strip by Richard McGuire, is that time moves while the camera doesn’t, not until it’s released in the final shot.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
But not until Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was there the Los Angeles that games created.
—Ade Adeniji, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2024
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
But with the deadline not until, February, there is a lot of time to figure things out.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
The conceit of Here, which was adapted from the comic strip by Richard McGuire, is that time moves while the camera doesn’t, not until it’s released in the final shot.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
But not until Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was there the Los Angeles that games created.
—Ade Adeniji, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for not until
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“Not until.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20until. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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