ensuing
Americanadjective
adjective
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following subsequently or in order
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following or occurring as a consequence; resulting
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ensuing
Explanation
If you go snowboarding in a leotard, prepare for an ensuing cold. Ensuing means "coming right after, or as a result of something that happened." Ensuing is the adjective form of the verb ensue, which comes from the Old French ensuivre, which means "following in." We usually use it to show cause and effect. Blame your entrepreneurial friend who takes bets in the lunchroom for the ensuing crackdown on employee gambling. An ensuing event happens right after its cause. If a dog bites you when you're eight, and twenty years later you start having nightmares about dog bites, those aren't ensuing nightmares. They're surfacing memories.
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Example Sentences
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As investors clamored to buy in, with the ensuing volatility triggering a brief trading halt within seconds of the first trade.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Reed wrote for many publications in the ensuing years, including Vogue, Esquire, GQ and Women’s Wear Daily, before landing at the New York Observer when it was founded as a print weekly in 1987.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
An ensuing standoff ended hours later with the chief of the National Bureau of Investigation telling reporters that they would not arrest Dela Rosa while he was in the custody of the Senate.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Its aggressive investments to capture market share and the ensuing price war eventually pushed the company into the red for the first time in nearly four years.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
“These fires burning off the old grass,” he observed, “in the ensuing Spring & Summer makes excellent fine sweet feed for the Horses & Buffalo, &c.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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