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thereupon

[thair-uh-pon, -pawn, thair-uh-pon, -pawn] / ˈðɛər əˌpɒn, -ˌpɔn, ˌðɛər əˈpɒn, -ˈpɔn /
ADVERB
immediately
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“The people building AI,” he thereupon reported, “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Holder will thereupon forfeit all rights to the AAirpass, without refund, and will return the AAirpass card and this Agreement shall terminate.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

Russian jets flew their first sorties over Syria on September 30, 2015, and the direction of the war thereupon reversed.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2018

Angela thereupon dropped all thought of going to university.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017

A steely silence thereupon settled over the dialogue between Quincy and Monticello for the following eight years.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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