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"This previously unrecognized cellular function of CS proteins leads to the marking of the DNA damage -- and thence to its enzymatic breakdown."

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Certainly, the Emmys both aided and reflected the audience transition from broadcast to cable and thence to streaming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Essentially, the briefcase is a communication tool which links the president to his military top brass and thence to rocket forces via the highly secret "Kazbek" electronic command-and-control network.

From Reuters • Oct. 17, 2022

Zoom ahead 68 years, and nobody flinched when Rich Strike owner Richard Dawson cut through his exhilarated disbelief right after the Kentucky Derby to say the Preakness two weeks thence might be a no-go.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,” canopied all; thence flakes fell at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë