afterward
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Once, when we lived in Texas, the paramedics came to a neighbor’s house, and afterward everyone went over to check on the family.
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As Belafonte later wrote, Poitier told him afterward, half joking, half shaken: “Don’t ever call me again for something like this.”
They tasted of that which you craved most, but also, if you ate more than one, made you vomit something black for days afterward.
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“They did wonder about her afterward, the Poles,” he says, turning to me.
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U.S. officials who briefed reporters afterward described the talks as upbeat and constructive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.