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Recent Examples of afterward Uvalde’s school board hired new lawyers Monday night as its members tried for a third time to be open about the circumstances of the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary, any problems beforehand and what happened afterward. Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025 The funds will go toward funding his services, and anything left over afterward will be donated to his son Aiden. Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 In 2022, his son was killed fighting in the Sparta Battalion, an anti-Ukrainian militia in the Donetsk Republic, and shortly afterward, Putin met with Zhoga to award his son a posthumous Hero of the Russian Federation medal. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025 But maybe more telling is what happened afterward. Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for afterward
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Adverb
  • It’ll be added to the Rebel model later in the model year.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Chiefs wideout Xavier Worthy exited with a shoulder injury after colliding with tight end Travis Kelce on Kansas City’s first possession and was later ruled out.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The country’s Home Affairs Minister resigned, and the government lifted the social-media ban the day after.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Not long after, police came to her home to inform her that her son had been killed, Lewis says.
    Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The game was called shortly thereafter with Richland about to punt.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His production tapered off a bit thereafter, but this season, general manager Brett Veach thinks Hunt’s full campaign could look a lot more like that initial stretch.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Afterward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterward. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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