afterclap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterclap
Noun
  • The success of the track and the music video has had an unusual side effect.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That side effect was not seen with ALZ-801, which works by preventing amyloid plaques from forming in the first place.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While the film tends to feel its extended run time by the final act, the dénouement hits with a glorious gut-punch, ending on one last poem from Rimantas as Minde sits on the seashore-like driftwood.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Though Sami’s previous ambivalence over the group’s mission makes his eventual attack on Whelan a bit curious, River’s heroic rescue of the beleaguered First Desk stooge sets up the real dénouement in which his future and the future of Slough House itself is briefly in question.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The region was hit by at least five aftershocks, the strongest measuring 5.2 magnitude in the hours after the initial quake, according to USGS.
    Masoud Popalzai, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the moral aftershocks of genocide, the very idea of monstrosity started to grow suspect.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cuts to federal aid earlier this year coupled with repercussions from the shutdown have left many desperate for help.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The repercussions have been especially acute for California’s premium wineries, which depended on Canadian consumers for high-end wines.
    Dave Gordon, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But despite how intertwined the two appear in the photo, Masi writes, the coiling afterglow of the meteor is actually quite far from the tail of Comet Lemmon.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the afterglow of her magnificent album, choke enough, and the birth of her first child, Marylou Mayniel decamps to the southwest of France.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The implication was that there could be an easily accessible, off-the-shelf shot capable of stimulating the immune system to fight cancer.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The effort had long-term implications for the future.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ditto the echoes of The Civil War, also examining a battle that pit brother against brother, and The Vietnam War, in which America became the occupying imperial force failing to understand or successfully combat a domestic insurgence.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Their lead guitarist — a wiry seventeen-year-old named Bruce Springsteen — already had an assistant to hit his echo pedal on cue.
    Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Afterclap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterclap. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!