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in the wake of
In the aftermath of, as a consequence of, as in Famine often comes in the wake of war . [Mid-1800s]
Following directly on, as in In the wake of the procession, a number of small children came skipping down the aisle . This usage alludes to the waves made behind a passing vessel. [c. 1800]
Example Sentences
An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.
In the wake of the fires, federal officials broke from the decades-long tradition of testing soil in wildfire burn areas in California to determine whether and when it is safe for people to come home.
She was handpicked by his first wife, who has since died, while a third wife had also joined the family - leaving in the wake of a leadership row that split the congregation.
But even that boundary was ignored in the wake of the spaceflight criticism, as commenters began targeting her four-year-old child simply because "it's cool now", he says.
In summary, Reform did best in what has sometimes been characterised in the wake of the Brexit referendum as 'left-behind' Britain – places that have profited less from globalisation and university expansion and where a more conservative outlook on immigration is more common.
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