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afterwards

/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ adverb B1
  1. At a later or succeeding time; after that;
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“And that was Policar Morrel, my uncle, who was afterwards a captain.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 6 · C1
Go to your father; go and see Mercédès, and afterwards come to me.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 10 · C1
I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 305 · B2
“Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 32 · C1

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