shortly after

idiom

: soon after
Shortly after she hung up, the phone rang again.

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The issue began shortly after midnight PDT in AWS' main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. Tasmin Lockwood,katrina Bishop, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025 The change comes shortly after the Big 12 threatened in-game penalties and $100,000 fines if fans continue to throw tortillas onto the playing surface. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025 In 2015, Sheikh Marwan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, a son of Dubai’s ruler, bought a majority stake in AA Real Estate Development, a company in which Imperiale had invested, shortly after the Spanish extradition request was filed. Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 Nelson and Rodney retired shortly after the war and were scrapped by the late 1940s. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shortly after

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“Shortly after.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shortly%20after. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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