- (used with the present perfect, past perfect or simple present tense in the main clause) from an event in the past until a later past event, or until now
- Cath hasn't phoned since she went to Berlin.
- It was the first time I'd had visitors since I'd moved to London.
- It's twenty years since I've seen her.
- How long is it since we last went to the theatre?
- She had been worrying ever since the letter arrived.
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- because; as
- We thought that, since we were in the area, we'd stop by and see them.
Word Originlate Middle English: contraction of obsolete sithence, or from dialect sin (both from dialect sithen ‘thereupon, afterwards, ever since’).
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