How to Use what then in a Sentence
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If that is the case, what then does the sequence of a variant mean?
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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At one point one of the Davids wonders, what if things were different — what then?
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
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Everything can be fixed with the right script If Indiana Jones does flop, what then?
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 June 2023
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The squat three-story brick box was built for a candy manufacturer on the block between Hawthorn and Second streets, around the corner from what then was skid row.
—John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that what then ensued was a battle between the artist and the memorial commission, the artist and the bureaucracy, the artist and the money.
—Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
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Bill worked with me on what then became a Thierry Mugler-meets-Gaultier-meets-Playboy bunny design.
—Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
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Alabama shocked much of the automotive world in 1993 with what then was a whopping incentive package to land Mercedes-Benz.
—Greg Bluestein, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
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That’s what then enables these systems to generate pictures that follow users’ text inputs.
—James Vincent, The Verge, 9 May 2023
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The spinoff, aptly titled Joey, featured LeBlanc journeying to discover what then became of his beloved character.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
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If the fall of insects’ tiny empires causes whole ecosystems to unravel, toppling previously solid certainties about the way our world functions, what then?
—Oliver Milman, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
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But if that single checkbox classifies us all with this skin, what then—despite America’s history of prejudice against all racially Black people—separates us at those points of entry?
—Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
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Conventional dating practices might actually lead to something promising, and what then?
—Morgan Parker, ELLE, 4 June 2022
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