as in therefore
for this or that reason
taxes were lowered, and consequently complaints were fewer
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Recent Examples of consequently
As people live longer, public pension systems are getting strained, and consequently, the retirement burden is slowly shifting from the state to the individual.
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Tanmay Gupta, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
By becoming more of a threat from downtown, defenders are consequently forced to apply more pressure on Ivey at the 3-point line.
—Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
Public health officials can detect the presence of pathogens shed by all individuals through wastewater testing, including those who are asymptomatic and consequently not seeking treatment.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
As outlined in Justice Alito's dissenting opinion, the Seventh Circuit court ruled that the groups could not bring a case to court to challenge the policy unless one of their children were trans and the parent had, consequently, been directly affected by the policy.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 10 Dec. 2024
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Tanmay Gupta, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
By becoming more of a threat from downtown, defenders are consequently forced to apply more pressure on Ivey at the 3-point line.
—Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
Public health officials can detect the presence of pathogens shed by all individuals through wastewater testing, including those who are asymptomatic and consequently not seeking treatment.
—Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
As outlined in Justice Alito's dissenting opinion, the Seventh Circuit court ruled that the groups could not bring a case to court to challenge the policy unless one of their children were trans and the parent had, consequently, been directly affected by the policy.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 10 Dec. 2024
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Death by firing squad is considered by some to be the quickest, most instantaneous and therefore least painful way to put a person to death.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
22 Jan. 2025
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The challenge now is therefore to sustain the cease-fire and add an arrangement stabilizing postwar Gaza with the contribution of countries from North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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Trendy purses, jeans, and dresses are also chef’s kiss, according to Brittany Mahomes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling, so keep scrolling to score styles from $17 now.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Lynch’s canon was so tremendous that each of his many fans and acolytes likely had different entry points into it.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Rather than deal with subtitles or translations, the characters use accents when speaking English in the play but then remove them when speaking Farsi, thus replicating the experience of non-native speakers from the audience’s perspective.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2025
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The restrictions thus function as the equivalent of a prior restraint, giving the FEC power analogous to the type of government practices that the First Amendment was drawn to prohibit.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Consequently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consequently. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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