post hoc
Example Sentences
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Supervisors, in turn, develop expertise that an arm’s-length regulator can’t match from periodic filings or post hoc investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Indeed, it was only after Wickstrom directly raised his illegal termination with Bosco that Bosco attempted an investigation to come up with a post hoc justification for Wickstrom’s termination.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
Another security factor could come from improving post hoc detectors that look for inadvertent artifacts of AI generation.
From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2023
You wrote about something called the post hoc fallacy.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2023
It was indeed in the Spanish interest to exaggerate the extent of human sacrifice, because ending what Cortes called this “most horrid and abominable custom” became a post hoc rationale for conquest.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
