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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subsequently
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
▪ He subsequently became a national figure and a wealthy man before dying in poverty.
▪ Foster, who subsequently became deputy White House counsel, committed suicide in July 1993.
▪ His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse.
▪ Saccani replaced him at the last minute at the Vienna State Opera and subsequently becoming a regular there.
▪ One of the leading advocates of Green 2000, Sara Parkin, subsequently became chair of the party's executive.
confirm
▪ This finding, that reduced sleep in the short-term has little effect on performance, was subsequently confirmed in later work.
▪ All five were confirmed subsequently by oral cholecystectography and repeat ultrasonography.
▪ This has been subsequently confirmed for mouse.
develop
▪ The deposit was subsequently developed by Dresser Industries Inc.
▪ Many other beta-blockers were subsequently developed by different companies, because the market was very large.
▪ Others may subsequently develop poor control on tablets because of their dietary indiscretions.
die
▪ Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer.
▪ Three of the attackers subsequently died.
▪ Unfortunately he has subsequently died, and I can't gain any direct personal insight into what the matter was.
▪ The old woman's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison.
▪ A solicitor fails to draw up a will within a reasonable time for a client who subsequently dies.
▪ Among these was Hamid Bendourou, who is reported to have died subsequently.
discover
▪ The hospital subsequently discovered that her death was the result of a massive overdose of a powerful anticancer drug.
find
▪ They subsequently found it difficult to talk about organization structure without first resolving questions of strategy.
give
▪ Cody was subsequently given a funeral with full military honours by the Aldershot garrison.
▪ Warren, who had been given excellent evaluations two months before his report, was subsequently given low marks and denied promotion.
▪ In that case the property passes not upon appropriation but when the other party's assent is subsequently given.
▪ These progenitors subsequently give rise to at least nine distinct differentiated cell types.
▪ This basically strategic revision was subsequently given analytical support through the theoretical work of more recent members of the neo-Marxist school.
make
▪ Merrill officials subsequently made that offer but continued to sell risky bonds to the county.
prove
▪ However unfounded the allegations made on a protected occasion may subsequently prove, they are privileged unless made with malice.
publish
▪ His friend Adam Smith wrote a tribute to him in a letter to William Strahan, which was subsequently published.
▪ This view was supported in subsequently published work by researchers like Geoffrey Meen9.
return
▪ He subsequently returned to a job in the clothing trade.
▪ She subsequently returned to her position, after changes were made in the administration of her department.
▪ He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison.
take
▪ Perrin subsequently took charge of the high-pressure research and Gibson was transferred to other work.
▪ Some of its reporters felt that Newsweek subsequently took excessive care not to offend Bush after he won the election.
▪ He had subsequently taken her to the cinema, where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers.
▪ This was then subsequently taken over by Oatridge College and this department was not involved at that time.
▪ It subsequently took Mo 2,200 man hours to complete Sparkle.
▪ The theme of the medicalisation of life was subsequently taken up by a number of other writers.
use
▪ The isotropic bile samples were subsequently used to measure the nucleation time and the relative distribution of vesicular cholesterol.
▪ What matters more is how they are subsequently used.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was savagely attacked and sustained severe injuries from which he subsequently died.
▪ New safety guidelines were subsequently adopted.
▪ The book was published in 1954 and was subsequently translated into fifteen languages.
▪ The decision was subsequently reversed on appeal.
▪ The six men were subsequently acquitted of all charges, but only after they had served 17 years in prison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Title on Culture was subsequently introduced into the treaty by the Maastricht amendments.
▪ Diplomatic relations had been severed in August 1989, and air and road links were subsequently cut.
▪ It was subsequently placed in the inner oratory where it was enshrined beneath an altar.
▪ The early sociologists established a number of traditions that have subsequently moulded the place of women in sociology.
▪ The New Zealand government subsequently announced a similar move.
▪ The remainder stays in the donor stream with the large molecular weight substances and is subsequently discarded.
▪ This of course was my own concern at Sussex, and subsequently.
▪ Wood can be glued very well by wetting it with water which is subsequently frozen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subsequently

Subsequently \Sub"se*quent*ly\, adv. At a later time; afterwards.

Wiktionary
subsequently

adv. 1 following, afterwards in either time or place. 2 accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction).

WordNet
subsequently

adv. happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that" [syn: later, afterwards, afterward, after, later on]

Usage examples of "subsequently".

They proceeded as far as Cape Magala, and decided that the chief outlet of the lake must be an affluent of the Lualaba, a conclusion that was subsequently confirmed by Cameron.

The hill itself was formed of talus, covered with alluvium, all but a small portion of which was subsequently cut away, leaving an almost vertical face 15 or 18 feet high.

ARPA guaranteed a minimum residual radioactivity and the proper shape of the crater in which the antenna subsequently would be placed.

I was a little vexed at everybody subsequently laughing at some joke which they did not explain, and it was only on going to bed I discovered I must have been walking about all the evening with an antimacassar on one button of my coat-tails.

Subsequently, the Supreme Court has held that the rights created under this statute cannot be defeated by forms of local practice and that it is the duty of the Supreme Court to construe allegations in a complaint asserting a right under the liability act in order to determine whether a State court has denied a right of trial guaranteed by Congress.

In this passage, there is an allusion of JUST SIX WORDS to one phase of experimentation which was subsequently found to be inaccurate, and corrected, as Dr.

Altogether I experimented on sixtyfour leaves with the above nitrogenous fluids, the five leaves tried only with the extremely weak solution of isinglass not being included, nor the numerous trials subsequently made, of which no exact account was kept.

Chocolate-cream either from Amsterdam or Rotterdam, probably purchased out there and subsequently impregnated with hydrocyanic acid.

Thus, subsequently, Java and the other islands assume in most maps a longitudinal, instead of a latitudinal, position.

Subsequently, she sent him a couple of larks, though the others had only one each, and she quite surprised the butler by drinking to her humble guest in a glass of malvoisie, and sending him a silver flagon full of the same wine.

From an examination it appeared that a neglected lacerated cervix during the birth of the last child had given rise to endometritis, and for a year the patient had suffered from severe menorrhagia, for which she was subsequently treated.

There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.

I attribute to inheritance from a common progenitor, for it can rarely have happened that natural selection will have modified several species, fitted to more or less widely-different habits, in exactly the same manner: and as these so-called generic characters have been inherited from a remote period, since that period when the species first branched off from their common progenitor, and subsequently have not varied or come to differ in any degree, or only in a slight degree, it is not probable that they should vary at the present day.

But we may confidently believe that many modifications, wholly due to the laws of growth, and at first in no way advantageous to a species, have been subsequently taken advantage of by the still further modified descendants of this species.

Valenciennes, there is hardly a single group of fishes confined exclusively to fresh water, so that we may imagine that a marine member of a fresh-water group might travel far along the shores of the sea, and subsequently become modified and adapted to the fresh waters of a distant land.