consequent to

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But there may be more than one way for the consequent to be true, which means that the falsity of the sufficient condition does not guarantee that the consequent is false.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In 2020 an estimated 295 billion potential work hours were lost globally consequent to extreme heat, with the greatest impacts in the agriculture sector of poor countries.

From Scientific American • May 10, 2022

If pressed, Kemp and his supporters conceded that all of that pent-up energy and enterprise might not fully offset the fall in tax revenues consequent to a big tax cut.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2015

The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2015

But the mouths of the lymphatics of the fauces are stimulated by the dry feather into too great action for a time, and become retrograde afterwards by the debility consequent to too great previous stimulus.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus