as in ensuing
being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else I'll do the first problem as an example, but all subsequent efforts must be done on your own

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Recent Examples of subsequent In the years since, multiple U.S. attorneys general and Homeland Security secretaries have extended those protections due to ongoing recovery challenges, subsequent natural disasters, and worsening economic and political crises. Miami Herald, 9 July 2025 By spring 2024, the records show Nassar was in default of the mortgage and owed about $189,000, triggering the home’s foreclosure and the mortgage company's subsequent purchase of it at auction. Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 8 July 2025 If the initial impetus for allowing women and free African Americans to vote in New Jersey was unclear, a subsequent election law change made the state the first in the Union to officially enfranchise women. Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025 This is nothing new: The change surrounding a presidential election and the subsequent transfer of power almost always makes business leaders nervous. Matt Kunkel, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for subsequent

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“Subsequent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsequent. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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