afterclap

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Noun
  • Like pretty much all vaccines and treatments, mRNA vaccines are not without side effects, but evidence shows that any adverse events are nearly always mild and short-lived.
    Simon Williams, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Their reasons include: Significant side effects: Benadryl causes drowsiness, delayed reaction time, and confusion.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Lambert gets the last word in the show… well, the last sung word, as Jesus’ crucifixion scene is pretty much the one time the rock opera gives way to a little speaking, following by the spooky instrumental denouement.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
  • A week after England won the UEFA Women’s Euro final, Brazil also retained their continental title in a dramatic denouement decided by a penalty shoot-out.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) reported that the main earthquake was followed by several aftershocks, including one measuring 4.6 magnitude.
    Hollie Silverman Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But should an aftershock take place, be ready to act.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Permanently doing so could cost taxpayers $335 billion over the next decade, but not acting could cause financial pain for policyholders and pose political repercussions for lawmakers.
    Julie Appleby, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Statesman is not naming the husband because Hicks said his husband fears repercussions for his case.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Either way, their afterglows can linger for hours or even months, providing researchers with time to collect as much data as possible.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2025
  • Though GRBs announce themselves with a brief phase, lasting seconds to minutes, this is followed by an afterglow that can take anywhere from hours to months to fade.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • There has been speculation the case would ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court because any ruling would have national implications for tribal sovereignty.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But pinning its underwhelming financials on anti-American sentiment presents more than a few troubling implications for an already beleaguered Hollywood.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are echoes of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, whose transition from right-winger to right-back thrust his career forward and ultimately led to a £50million ($67.3m at the current rate) move from Palace to Manchester United in June 2019 at age 21.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are echoes of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in Thomas’s semi-autobiographical movie starring Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham as siblings with dispositions as strikingly disparate as those possessed by the Prozorov sisters.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
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“Afterclap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterclap. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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