- from a time in the past until a later past time, or until now
- She went for a run on Monday and has not been seen since.
- She moved to Pakistan in 1997 and has been living in Lahore ever since.
- He left home two weeks ago and we haven't heard from him since.
- The health of the British people was better at the end of the Second World War than at any time before or since.
- The original building has long since (= long before now) been demolished.
- at a time after a particular time in the past
- The song topped the charts in 1957 and has since become a rock and roll classic.
- We were divorced two years ago and she has since remarried.
Word Originlate Middle English: contraction of obsolete sithence, or from dialect sin (both from dialect sithen ‘thereupon, afterwards, ever since’).
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since