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  • While it's a wonder they understand any high-tech jargon at all, lawyers, famous for their threadbare "" whereupons '' and "" heretofores, '' are stumbling over some of the unforgiving tech-talk, salted with more acronyms than alphabet soup in full boil.

    The Perils Of Geek Speak 2008

  • I've heard that solicitors sometimes draft contracts for their clients in plain English, only for their clients to insist that they should be rewritten with heretofores and thereinunders to make them look more official.

    Lord Rodger's Renton lecture 2008

  • One terrible bit of news: To make sure you know the ins and outs of your policy, you need to read that entire insufferably boring booklet with all the policy rules and limits and bylaws and heretofores and therewiths.

    YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

  • One terrible bit of news: To make sure you know the ins and outs of your policy, you need to read that entire insufferably boring booklet with all the policy rules and limits and bylaws and heretofores and therewiths.

    YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

  • It is full of "whereases" and "peradventures" and "heretofores" and similar swank, and there aren't any stops in it.

    Uneasy Money 1928

  • And school personnel soon detect parental influence after an overload of heretofores and semicolons are sprinkled throughout the form.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • There are also the regulatory and legal whereases and heretofores about long-term liabilities and international rules.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Canadian Press: none 2009

  • "So you were a baroness once, one of the heretofores?

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • "Republicans do not excuse and excuse like you 'heretofores.'

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

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