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- noun An
effect ; especially, one that is experienced only after adelay , or only in thelong term .
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Examples
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"There's a tipping point that we reach where, as an engine of growth, it's not so much an after-effect of U.S. prosperity."
World Stocks Defied Year of Worry Jonathan Cheng 2011
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At first I thought that I might have been hallucinating—you know, some kind of after-effect from the bite I got from that shape-shifter— or that your craziness was contagious.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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Early in 1929, major-league baseball scouts recruited Acuff for training camp, but his collapse during a game — an after-effect of an earlier sunstroke — prompted a nervous breakdown and sidelined him for most of 1930.
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LONDON Global trade has taken a serious knock recently as an after-effect of the global financial crisis, but as the world emerges from recession a few rising stars in the trade landscape are set to emerge.
HSBC Highlights Rising Stars In Global Trade Parmy Olson 2010
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Again, my primary concerns are what the after-effect would be in their assault on 1st amendment rights, and whether this process subverts the will of the people.
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The things he carefully avoids are the nausea of over-drinking, the after-effect of over-drinking, the helplessness and loss of pride of over-drinking.
Chapter 32 2010
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At first I thought that I might have been hallucinating—you know, some kind of after-effect from the bite I got from that shape-shifter— or that your craziness was contagious.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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The only after-effect would be the emergence of Cattail growing along the coastline.
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The only after-effect would be the emergence of Cattail growing along the coastline.
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David Rudd of the University of Utah notes that "ultimately we are all struggling with the reality that psychiatric casualties" are a significant after-effect of these wars.
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