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Instead, the Canadian Kuitenbrouwers wound up on a farm in Quebec where, Peter’s mother and stepfather whimsically decreed, they would thenceforth make maple syrup, what the author calls “the national lifeblood” of Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday that would thenceforth be celebrated on the last Thursday of every November.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

The speculation appears to have originated with Patton Oswalt’s Twitter, and then spread thenceforth:

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016

In theory, the nationalisation of the Bank in 1946 reduced its powers considerably; certainly interest rate decisions thenceforth became the prerogative of chancellors until 1997 and independence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2012

The fear of losing Joe’s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens