subsequent
[suhb-si-kwuh nt]
- occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to): subsequent events; Subsequent to their arrival in Chicago, they bought a new car.
- following in order or succession; succeeding: a subsequent section in a treaty.
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Origin of subsequent
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Contemporary Examples
The offices were firebombed in 2011; no one was hurt but a permanent police car was subsequently stationed outside.
He subsequently asked a reporter to accompany him as he dared to share his story with the police for the first time.
Zubaydah and two other detainees were subsequently waterboarded, and subjected to other methods including sleep deprivation.
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After charging at the officer, the teen was sadly but subsequently killed by the officer who feared for his life.
However, he asked her to give up her career as a political journalist—she subsequently became a book critic.
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Historical Examples
Bartels subsequently rose to be a professor in the University of Dorpat, where he died.
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Subsequently he was the landlord of one of the local taverns.
He graduated at Yale college, and was subsequently a tutor in that institution.
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(Mr Cheeseborough was subsequently the superintendent of police at Keighley).
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Subsequently it displaces this Pole a little, as I just said.
subsequent
- occurring after; succeeding
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin subsequēns following on, from subsequī, from sub- near + sequī to follow
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Word Origin and History for subsequently
subsequent
adj.
mid-15c., from Middle French subséquent (14c.), from Latin subsequentem (nominative subsequens), present participle of subsequi "to follow closely," from sub "closely, up to" (see sub-) + sequi "follow." Related: Subsequently.
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