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shortly

adverb as in right away

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"There is no justification for an attack on a kindergarten, nor can there ever be," President Volodymyr Zelensky said shortly after the strike.

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The crash occurred shortly after 9 p.m. at a busy commercial district between 14th and Euclid streets.

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The two artists met at the Louvre in about 1865, and the show opens with a gallery of portraits Manet painted of Morisot shortly thereafter.

When the first stars appeared shortly afterward, during a phase known as the "cosmic dawn," their light likely amplified this radio emission dramatically.

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Mrs Wolff wrote to her daughter's psychiatrist shortly before the discharge, asking him to consult a specialist autism unit about how to reduce her risk of self-harm in the community.

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