since
∞
1.0
- adposition
- /sɪns/
:
desde
- There have been big changes in the romance market since the boom times of the early 1980s.
- since its inception
- since the beginning
- since 1990
This is a world that I have been in since high school.
- This is a world that I have been in since high school.
- It's been ongoing since March of last year.
- What have you achieved since that fatal day?
- But things have changed since the invasion of Ukraine.
- I hadn't heard that wake up call since childhood.
- So has how has it changed since Lincoln's time?
- In fact, it really hasn't existed since the Great Depression.
- I run into a girl that I've known since my middle school days.
- And it's now been three to four months since that buzz from the script.
- We haven't seen this kind of prices paid ISM report since September.
- But Kane has been doing that since March, February.
- And I, by the way, since Friends, I've heard that.
Examples
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It's been ongoing since March of last year.
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This stuff has been driving you crazy since the holidays.
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This is a world that I have been in since high school.
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But things have changed since the invasion of Ukraine.
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Much more has changed in the world since the 1950s and 1960s.
Academic text (2011) -
I have used audible since I was a little girl.
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It's been more than two years since the accident, and Lexi has moved on with her life.
Academic text (2011) -
I've been letting my hair grow since middle school.
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I've been telling this story since the night of August 7, 1994.
Academic text (2011) -
I have lived in this city since I graduated from university.
Idioms
1
6.9
A very useful new thing that people say is great
Surface Forms
Etymology
Since comes from an old English root sith meaning 'after that time'. So when you say 'since 2015' you mean 'from that time' up to now.