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  1. adv. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

Examples

  • “The name is most likely derived from the Angle-Saxon word "hecg" for a territorial boundary, and so is not related to the planted hedges seen elsewhere.”

    The Guardian: Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall

  • “There was some debate about how to quantify both sides, and what to do in the case of a Jewish Texan, and so Slim was forced to modify his wager into the more readily visible “hats versus bareheads.””

    Simon & Schuster: One of a Kind

  • “If you succeed and help this ceremony of joining to go off without a hitch, if the null-field device is installed, and so on, I will be given a slap on the wrist by Starfleet for my actions, but lauded publicly as the savior of this world.”

    Simon & Schuster: Breakdowns

  • “Mercier's home was a huge white place with landscaped gardens and so many rooms that a search party would have to be organized if anybody got lost on the way to the bathroom.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Killing Kind

  • “Well, this idea morphed into a graphic novel, The Alcoholic, which is essentially a life story as one big bender, and so there are plenty of girls and fights and madness and heartbreak.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

  • “We warned in November 2009 that the PCC's cursory and complacent response to the Guardian's phone-hacking allegations would be damaging to the cause of self-regulation, and so it has proved.”

    The Guardian: News International: Hacking away at the truth | Editorial

  • “How many patients never saw a billboard or a flyer and so never reported to the registry; how many were ill but had no idea as to what it was they were suffering from; how many had died from lupus complications before the Buffalo Lupus Project even began?”

    Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

  • “At some point, I meet a girl with a name that sounds like Samitra and so I cry out, “Nice to meetcha, Samitra!” and Lenny laughs.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

  • “It was a performance piece, a kind of Evel Knievel–meets–George Plimpton stunt, and so Leslie wanted to be considered the only artist-boxer in the East Village.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

  • “In his country he had been a powerful prince, and so who was I, a strange blond Jew from New Jersey, to deflower his precious daughter, a Middle Eastern princess-in-exile?”

    Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

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