post hoc
Example Sentences
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Supervisors, in turn, develop expertise that an arm’s-length regulator can’t match from periodic filings or post hoc investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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
You might never guess this, however, from the neat post hoc analyses that follow each market’s close.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
