as in afterwards
from this point on
he is giving up all his worldly goods and hereafter will devote his life to the poor
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as in future
time that is to come
apologized, for being late to the meeting and assured his boss that there would be no such recurrences in the hereafter
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2
as in immortality
unending existence after death
hoped to be reunited with his deceased wife in the hereafter
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Recent Examples of hereafter
Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
Affirm that efforts meant to keep Reddit accountable to its commitments and deadlines will hereafter not be met with insults, threats, removals, or hostility.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 26 June 2023
Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
Others of us prefer her messing with the hereafter alongside Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
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Adverb
Then choose to live your life hereafter in a place beyond his reach.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
Affirm that efforts meant to keep Reddit accountable to its commitments and deadlines will hereafter not be met with insults, threats, removals, or hostility.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 26 June 2023
Noun
The otherworlds that Véra claimed were central to his metaphysics don’t necessarily exist in a temporal hereafter, but rather in a spatial here and now.
—Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
Others of us prefer her messing with the hereafter alongside Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hereafter
Noun
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Other critics contend that technology is changing so quickly that the batteries used in the near future will be different from those that are used now.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Then, on Wednesday, a day before Maryland took the court for its first Sweet 16 game in a decade, Willard dodged questions about his future with the Terps, a stark contrast to his comments a week earlier.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Set far into the future after humanity has been destroyed, the book features a cult that clones its members, the cult in the book resembles the real-world Raëlian movement, which is a group in France that believes that aliens invented modern technology and hope for immortality through cloning.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Four years before that, Joanne applied for country-jukebox immortality.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The electoral bureau later banned Georgescu from May’s rerun, after prosecutors charged him with establishing a fascist group and other crimes.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Hunter later pleaded guilty but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Although momentum in baseball should be as fickle as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, the New York Mets have managed to maintain it with their fan base through a difficult playoff loss, through the winter and into a new regular season, as seen in a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Staying silent limits the ability of business to shape tomorrow's economy.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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As resulting initiatives like Spelman’s and HBCUs Outside become more commonplace, there can be a signal to a new generation of young Black people that the intersection of environmentalism and cultural resilience are imperatives of Black futurity.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 Nov. 2024
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Centrally, by having a coltan miner as the protagonist, the film links futurity with materiality and labor.—
Ruby Thélot,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2024
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“Hereafter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hereafter. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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