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to date

prep. phr..
C1 Advanced Oxford

prep. phr.. up until now or until a specific point in time.

prep. phr.. functioning as an adverbial phrase to indicate the temporal limit of an action or state from the past up to the present moment.


SIMPLE

This is our most successful project to date.

CONTEXTUAL

The company has received over five hundred applications to date for the new position.

COMPLEX

While several theories have been proposed, none of the research to date has provided a definitive explanation for the phenomenon.

Origin

to + date

Usage

usually appears at the end of a sentence or immediately after a noun phrase to modify it.

Teaching tip

contrast with 'so far'; 'to date' is more formal and is frequently used in business reports and academic writing to summarize progress.

Pitfall

until to dateto datethe phrase 'to date' already includes the idea of 'until'; adding 'until' before it is redundant.

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