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Recent Examples of after all
The world is still waiting for LeBron James' Slam Dunk Contest debut, after all.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
Completing lessons on the app could bring Duo back to life, the company said on Wednesday, in an apparent signal that the digital creature's death announced Tuesday might be a spoof after all.
—April Rubin, Axios, 15 Feb. 2025
That’s kind of the whole premise of Love Is Blind, after all—contestants are challenged to build deep bonds in pods without seeing each other.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 14 Feb. 2025
China’s Silicon Valley–slayer may have mooched off Silicon Valley after all.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
Completing lessons on the app could bring Duo back to life, the company said on Wednesday, in an apparent signal that the digital creature's death announced Tuesday might be a spoof after all.
—April Rubin, Axios, 15 Feb. 2025
That’s kind of the whole premise of Love Is Blind, after all—contestants are challenged to build deep bonds in pods without seeing each other.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 14 Feb. 2025
China’s Silicon Valley–slayer may have mooched off Silicon Valley after all.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for after all
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Immigration officials, however, will only contact you through official government channels (such as your USCIS account) and will not contact you through your personal social media accounts, according to the USCIS website.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Until now, however, there was little surviving evidence from this time beyond unreliable copies of Akkadian inscriptions created later.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Blocked by a judge Any plan for immediate deportation actions were nevertheless placed on hold by a federal judge that granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from removing immigrants from the United States using the Alien Enemies Act.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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The mayor nevertheless went on the trip, attending the Ghanaian president’s inauguration, as well as a U.S. Embassy cocktail party, on Jan. 7, the day the Palisades fire broke out.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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Left unsaid: That argument may not fly and, regardless, a judge had signaled those planes should have stayed grounded.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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An extended stay in space A former senior NASA official told CNN that SpaceX never communicated such a proposition to agency leadership — and NASA likely would not have entertained the idea regardless.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
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“After all.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/after%20all. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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