Examples of post hoc in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But restricting these post hoc rationalizations serve important values, Chief Justice Roberts wrote. — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2020 In a hyperpolarized system such as ours (as opposed to a European parliamentary government), what seem to be inevitable political coalitions are just as often post hoc frameworks grafted on top of marriages of convenience. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 Lowell’s eventual return to Hardwick, and his almost shamed gratitude to her for permitting him to come back to a life led in common, put a post hoc frame around the dramatic vicissitudes and fantasies of the flight to Blackwood. — Helen Vendler, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 One thing both sides seems to agree on is that omission amounts to punishment, a post hoc retraction of playing-day success. — New York Times, 20 July 2019 Our cancel culture relies on the unpredictability and post hoc nature of the enforcement to instill a spirit of creative and preemptive conformity among those with something to lose. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 July 2019 But these, deCervo likes to point out, are post hoc variables. — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018 But to arbitrarily impose a post hoc analysis after voters have seen such a person run a campaign is not right. — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018 There is something called a post hoc fallacy in logic, which says that because one thing happened, a second development is erroneously thought to be directly caused by it. — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017

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