as in either
in addition to what has been said there's the cost of the car itself, and then there's the cost of insurance and maintenance

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Recent Examples of then Selected talent will then travel to Korea to train at a professional K-pop academy before a live performance competition takes place at the culmination of the series. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025 And then proceeded to die on the vine trying to write this story. Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025 Cost: Tickets are $17 until 4 p.m. Oct. 3, then $20. Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025 The Cavaliers dropped 700 yards on William & Mary, then followed it up with 590 against Stanford. Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for then
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  • The Bears quarterback didn't hesitate to offer some self-criticism in his postgame remarks either.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Subsequent names didn't stick either, despite cases of this unusual form of diabetes continuing to surface, especially in areas afflicted with malnutrition.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • The brand said in April 2021 that encrypted password information was also included within the leak, but the encryption keys to read those passwords weren’t accessed.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
    Abigail Van Buren, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • And besides, Milan would have to do the running.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s a whole lot else going on here besides, beginning with that aforementioned lobby encounter between Mathias and blonde mystery woman Claude (Nadia Tereszkiewicz, more breathily reminiscent than ever of a younger Marion Cotillard).
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
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  • He is seen as a younger, more moderate voice – having vowed to clean up politics, initiate discussions on constitutional reform and allow married couples to use separate surnames, something currently banned under law.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Both the music mogul's supporters and detractors have sent letters to the judge urging either a more lenient or harsher sentence.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

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