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thereafter

 adverb
     
there‧af‧ter formal
after a particular event or time [= afterwards]:
10,000 men had volunteered by the end of September; thereafter, approximately 1,000 men enlisted each month.
Sophie was born in France, but shortly thereafter her family moved to the United States.
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