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afterward

/ˈɑːftə.wəd/

An illustration for afterward

adverb

happening after something else happened

  • “The foods collected will be noted afterward to flood victims.”Tatoeba
  • “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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