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ensuing

adjective C1
  1. Refers to the actions, consequences, and repercussions which result from some prior stimulus or event. · We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.
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“Yes, Miss Elizabeth, you will have the honour of seeing Lady Catherine de Bourgh on the ensuing Sunday at church, and I need not say you will be delighted with her.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 182 · B2
The ensuing commercial triumph was nothing short of meteoric, obliterating the entrenched orthodoxies of the early twentieth-century publishing industry.
The Paperback Revolution, p. 1 · C2

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