thereupon

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Holder will thereupon forfeit all rights to the AAirpass, without refund, and will return the AAirpass card and this Agreement shall terminate.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2019

Russian jets flew their first sorties over Syria on September 30, 2015, and the direction of the war thereupon reversed.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2018

I followed him up a staircase onto the second floor of the Capitol, and thereupon he waded into the sea of Republicans convened on the House floor.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

Miss Chrystie thereupon arranged for Miss Nordstrom to “happen by” one day, in the spring of 1950, when Sendak had tacked up a broad variety of his pictures on the walls of the store’s studio.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 1966

A steely silence thereupon settled over the dialogue between Quincy and Monticello for the following eight years.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis