Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb From a specified time onward; from then on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- After that; after them.
- After that; afterward.
- According to that; after that rule or way; after that sort or fashion; accordingly.
- According.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb After that; afterward.
- adverb According to that; accordingly.
- adverb obsolete Of that sort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb After that.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb from that time on
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Fonz jumped the shark. a term thereafter used to describe a show going on longer than it should.
The Fonz vs The Hoff - This Time It's Serious! Kerron Cross 2006
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Any Terminator canon thereafter is a pile of steaming dog turds.
Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction 2009
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The fact that neither body of economics predicted the financial collapse of 2008 or the housing bubble that popped shortly thereafter is of little import.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics and the Obama Administration: 2010
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Indeed, that ratio declined every Presidential term thereafter -- under Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and inched up only 0.2% under Ford, essentially even.
Paul Abrams: Reagan and Two Bushes: The Only Growth of Debt/GDP Ratios in Post-War History 2010
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Therefore his having divorced his first wife because she was involved in a bad accident, and his having married his second wife, 17 years his junior, shortly thereafter, is relevant.
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Therefore his having divorced his first wife because she was involved in a bad accident, and his having married his second wife, 17 years his junior, shortly thereafter, is relevant.
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“They – everybody – re-secured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately thereafter from the wounds he received from the airstrike.”
Think Progress » Snow on 2,500 U.S. Fatalities In Iraq: ‘It’s A Number’ 2006
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Some historians say that no Indian account of the battle given shortly thereafter is to be fully believed, because the Indians were frightened of reprisals if they said anything that made Custer look bad.
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This book is not only very entertaining but is full of info, and is available via Amazon or via Don's web site at www. headformexico.com I'm told that Karen Blue's book, "Midlife Mavericks," which focuses on the move south and life thereafter from a woman's point of view, is excellent, too, although I must admit I haven't read it.
Where do I start? 2004
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The uncertainty turned to joy when Andrews called his family shortly thereafter from the hospital ship USNS
Andrews, William 1991
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