post hoc
Example Sentences
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Mr. Buruma resists glib post hoc censure, acknowledging that German civilians “lived in constant fear of their own government.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Indeed, it was only after Wickstrom directly raised his illegal termination with Bosco that Bosco attempted an investigation to come up with a post hoc justification for Wickstrom’s termination.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
They never consider, for a moment, the phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc."
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
Another security factor could come from improving post hoc detectors that look for inadvertent artifacts of AI generation.
From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2023
It was indeed in the Spanish interest to exaggerate the extent of human sacrifice, because ending what Cortes called this “most horrid and abominable custom” became a post hoc rationale for conquest.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
