ensue
verb (used without object)
to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am told that numerous marriages have ensued in consequence, or are ensuing.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton