afterward
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Shortly afterward, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, with whom he had become friendly, hired Brown as one of the startup’s first 20 employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Instead of gathering a large collection of measurements and reconstructing the state afterward, this type of measurement can identify an entangled state using a one-shot approach.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
It’s physical evidence that I scored that goal in college, and what I remember is that my teammates jumped over the boards to pile on top of me afterward, genuinely happy for me.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the deal broke down shortly afterward when Iran fired on commercial ships in Hormuz that it accused of deviating from its approved route through the waterway.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Eisman had invited the bullish-on-subprime Bear Stearns analyst Gyan Sinha to his office and grilled him so mercilessly that a Bear Stearns salesman had called afterward and complained.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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