whereafter
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Drake said she excused herself, whereafter a man called and offered her $10,000.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2016
You get the gag early in their Girls-Aloud-sing-nursery-rhymes number, whereafter the song has nowhere comedically to go.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2012
Its individual members needed merely to be protected against privileges and to be let alone, whereafter the native goodness of human nature would accomplish the perfect consummation.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
Had the lady Maki's son-in-law succeeded Sanetomo, the former would have been the next victim of Tokimasa's ambition, whereafter the field would have been open for the grand climacteric, the supremacy of the Hojo.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Here a worm-eaten apple fell to the ground, and the woman paused; whereafter, with head a little raised, she resumed her way with greater speed.
From Through Russia by C. J. Hogarth
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