post hoc

Example Sentences

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But rather than abandon this dumb-as-nails talking point, right-wing media has been working overtime trying to backfill the "woke banks" gambit with post hoc rationalizations.

From Salon

"I think he understands that no one can take the election from the voters with this type of aggressive and extreme post hoc legislation."

From Salon

When you examine something in a post hoc analysis of a non-pre-determined endpoint, boy, can you be led down the garden path.

From Science Magazine

They are free to conduct further exploratory analyses, provided these are clearly identified as post hoc — having been done after planned analyses were completed.

From Nature

Besides being more efficient, an added benefit of stochastic approaches is that uncertainty in predictions can be assessed directly and systematically, not post hoc as is presently the fashion.

From Scientific American