til
noun
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til
1 American
[til, teel]
/ tɪl, til /
Also
teel
noun
'til
2
American
[til]
/ tɪl /
preposition
TIL
3
American
Or
til
abbreviation
til
British
/ tiːl, tɪl /
noun
Commonly Confused
See till 1.
Etymology
Origin of til1
Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1830–40
Origin of 'til2
Aphetic variant of until
Origin of TIL3
From its use in digital communications
Example Sentences
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“As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it til now.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
"As soon as I won the first prize I ran back to my hotel room to keep working on the other one. I worked from 6pm til 6am and didn't sleep," she said.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
“She didn’t even start watching the show til like last week.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Let’s fake it til you become it, you know?
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
“There's men removing the old garments behind the pork, Prince O. Why don’t you repair there and change and I'll engage this fine lady til you return so she don’t become listless a-waiting.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
“And now every child in D.C. from the time they’re born ’til they’re 5 years old gets a free book delivered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"From then 'til now I live with pain and incontinence and that's something that's really not talked about widely - with women generally, and certainly within certain communities."
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
And for the first time in a while, I slept ’til morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
And then, at five ’til 6, there was only one tent left.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
"Turn left at the next chance," he said, "and follow your nose 'til you wets your toes."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
But TIL therapy doesn't work for everyone, as the researchers found in their earlier study.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
And yes, TIL is actually included in the guide, but so are thousands of other abbreviations that I’m convinced someone just made up.
From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2022
As Adams tweeted to Keller soon after the article appeared, “The main thing is that I am alive. Do not write me off and make statements about how my life ends TIL IT DOES, SIR.”
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2014
Still, Sumit Mazumder, chairman of TIL Limited, a heavy equipment manufacturer, said he is more optimistic about West Bengal’s prospects.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2012
To keep the TIL cells vigorous and growing, the NCI team had to inject the mice with additional IL-2, but only about a tenth as much as in the LAK treatments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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