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Originally Posted by snbzk
"Until" can be used to describe spatial boundaries in situations like giving directions ("go until you get to the gas station, then turn left") or describing linear paths ("this road goes on until it reaches the coast"), but I would say that even in those situations it's technically referring to the time it takes to reach a destination.
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That's precisely the "caveat" I was thinking about. It's not really a caveat, though, because as you said, the subtext of the phrase is that you are going until a point in time (i.e., the point in time at which X is accomplished).