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TO DATE

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prior to the present time

Example:

no suspect has been found to date

Synonyms:

to date; up to now

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 Context examples: 

In total, their analyses included nearly 37,000 people with schizophrenia and a control group of more than 113,000 people who did not have the condition—the largest GWAS to date of a psychiatric disorder.

(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)

To date, the most effective antibacterial clays are those from the Oregon deposit.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets — the single largest finding of planets to date.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

Such an event is called a transit, and has been used to detect many of the exoplanets cataloged to date.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Most of the exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, that have been imaged to date dwell in disks similar to the one around AWI0005x3s.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

However, only a few studies have been conducted to date dealing with women during the early stages of pregnancy, and the results are ambiguous.

(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)

Few people are as up to date on as wide a variety of topics as you, dear Gemini.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE — extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

To date genetic studies have revealed four genes that may be linked to autosomal dominant or familial early onset AD (FAD).

(Alzheimer's Disease Pathway KEGG, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)