How to Use post hoc in a Sentence

post hoc

adjective

• But these, deCervo likes to point out, are post hoc variables.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• One thing both sides seems to agree on is that omission amounts to punishment, a post hoc retraction of playing-day success.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2019
• Biogen later worked with the FDA on post hoc review of the trials that found some marginal improvement.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 20 July 2021
• Hines also criticizes the logic of trying to 'explain' Einstein's mind from his neuroanatomy, post hoc.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2014
• But to arbitrarily impose a post hoc analysis after voters have seen such a person run a campaign is not right.
  — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Lowell’s eventual return to Hardwick, and his almost shamed gratitude to her for permitting him to come back to a life led in common, put a post hoc frame around the dramatic vicissitudes and fantasies of the flight to Blackwood.
  — Helen Vendler, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• There is something called a post hoc fallacy in logic, which says that because one thing happened, a second development is erroneously thought to be directly caused by it.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Our cancel culture relies on the unpredictability and post hoc nature of the enforcement to instill a spirit of creative and preemptive conformity among those with something to lose.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 July 2019
• Not post hoc loan forgiveness, but tuition-free education or enticements to enroll.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 1 June 2021
• Many of the posts online cite no evidence except that the person who died had been vaccinated at some point in the past, using a common disinformation strategy known as post hoc fallacy, according to Jetelina.
  — Angelo Fichera, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• But restricting these post hoc rationalizations serve important values, Chief Justice Roberts wrote.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2020
• Recently, the algorithm was used to analyze post hoc the resulting workload for a single human deploying a heterogeneous robot swarm in an urban environment.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2022
• In a hyperpolarized system such as ours (as opposed to a European parliamentary government), what seem to be inevitable political coalitions are just as often post hoc frameworks grafted on top of marriages of convenience.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Subsidized premiums and post hoc disaster aid shift flood risk from individual owners to taxpayers at large and encourage development in flood-prone areas.
  — Logan Strother, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2017
• To determine whether each coital position had distinct spine kinematic profiles, separate univariate general linear models, followed by Tukey's honestly significant difference post hoc analysis were used.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2014

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