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  • adverb formal After which time

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Examples

  • I'm also waiting for Void Jumper: The Soundtrack to make it through the process at Jamendo, whereafter it'll be more easily available to the world.

    Sinking feelings aboard the Seaview 2009

  • Oh, if you're easily amused, go over to Peter David's blog where he's running segments of a thing called Potato Moon, which is a parody of a fan sequel to Stephenie Meyers 'Twilight books (as well as a parody of the originals); this book, titled Russett Moon, got its author into legal trouble, whereafter she proclaimed some New Agey stuff about the global gestalt mind ... which is where PAD comes into it.

    Sinking feelings aboard the Seaview 2009

  • Traditionally, this slight fizz derived from a production method whereby the first fermentation took place in open stone tanks, known as lagares , whereafter the wine was run off into a cask to undergo a secondary malolactic fermentation, which produces carbon dioxide.

    Iberia's Hidden Gems Will Lyons 2011

  • "City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas" celebrates the Stato da Mar to give the Venetian empire its proper name from its beginning in 1000 till 1503, whereafter Ottoman sea power redirected Venetian expansion to northern Italy.

    The Doges of War William H. McNeill 2012

  • I turned in shortly before dawn feeling not half bad; it was snug and jolly to see Susie snoring away in the dim candle-light, with one fine tit peeping out among the frills; I nibbled away until she squirmed into wakefulness, whereafter we set to partners, celebrating the first civilised bed we'd occupied since the Planter's Hotel, if you like.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • His assignation with her was for eight the following evening, after the first day of the Congress, and she expected to have him off the premises by midnight, whereafter I would roll up to see that all was well, she would write her report, and we would enjoy a late supper and whatever else came to mind before I left with her despatch in my hat for transfer to Blowitz later in the day.

    Watershed 2010

  • Wootton also removed the intestines, and to my disgust grilled them gently by pulling them through the embers, whereafter he swallowed them in a great long string, like some huge piece of spaghetti.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • He nodded, and asked had I plenty of charges for my revolver and Colt rifle, whereafter I sat down by one of the smaller fires and gave my attention to the grub, taking stock of the company as I ate.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Or Hajaim School, founded in 1999 – 2000, includes a kindergarten and an elementary school at which boys and girls study together until the fifth grade, whereafter they separate.

    Mexico: Education. 2009

  • In general terms, what we're talking about here is a situation where A and B have a contract or agreement to which C is not a party, whereafter B and C engage in activitity forbidden to B by their contract ot agrement with A, giving rise to the question of whether A has any claim against C.

    "An act of adultery between the defendant and the spouse of the plaintiff..." Ann Althouse 2009

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