thenceforth

Definition of thenceforthnext

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Adverb
  • But Fox News Digital learned that a former athletics department administrator reluctantly accepted a voluntary retirement package, and then Berdo was hired shortly thereafter.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Shortly thereafter, his sons, Joseph and Thomas, also were diagnosed.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Riley allegedly explained to her how her life would work henceforth.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Actresses of a certain age are henceforth barred from investigating crimes on TV.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • By accepting the prize, winners grant to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law).
    CBS LA Staff, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There isn’t any sureness to the ground hereafter and no promise that a hoof will not land false somewhere and drop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • This contrived right — never before or since applied to any other refugee population — found its way into U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194, which Arab governments thenceforward wielded as a cudgel against the Jewish state.
    Michael M. Rosen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
Adverb
  • Because robots present profound risks to humanity, all work on A.I. will be henceforward discontinued.
    Jay Martel, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Borgnine will henceforward be recalled as the good, honest, 100% human fellow, trying to discover a romantic life for himself, with plenty of handicaps, in a picture that may well be remembered as long as pictures themselves are remembered.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
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“Thenceforth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thenceforth. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.

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