thereupon

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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

Alecky Blythe, a specialist in the thriving narrative form known as “verbatim theater,” thereupon set about to interview the inhabitants of the specific street, London Road, on which the killer lived.

From New York Times • May 3, 2011

Kamehameha thereupon prepared invasions of the last independent Hawaiian island, Kauai, whose chief finally reached a negotiated settlement with him, completing the archipelago’s unification.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond