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- noun A later time; the
future .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I wonder what Octomom did in order to bring this wrath on her time after time after-time.
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If thou do this, thou wilt cheer thy friends as well as thyself, and thou shalt rear my Hector's child to lend stout aid to Ilium, that so thy children in the after-time may build her up again, and our city yet be stablished.
The Trojan Women 2008
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If thou do this, thou wilt cheer thy friends as well as thyself, and thou shalt rear my Hector's child to lend stout aid to Ilium, that so thy children in the after-time may build her up again, and our city yet be stablished.
The Trojan Women 2008
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That whole class has to do with the future, and laws are passed under the idea that they will be useful in after-time; which, in other words, is the future.
Theaetetus 2007
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Chant which an after-time shall tax of vanity never.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Chant which an after-time shall tax of vanity never.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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She could only remember, in the after-time, that she woke instantly.
The Haunted Hotel 2003
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How shall we understand the accountability of the powerful to the nations, of which Churchill spoke, which is underpinned by the urge to avoid the long reproaches of the after-time!
ANC Today 2003
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To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time.
ANC Today 2003
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Certain it is, too, that in after-time he often repented of his severity to the
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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