noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
immediate
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The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah's removal.
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The last time I had spoken to him was in the immediate aftermath of the coxless pairs final at the Atlanta Olympics.
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Operation Resurrection, as it was called, was first mooted in the immediate aftermath of 13 May.
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Something over two hundred vacancies resulted in the immediate aftermath and a trickle of further resignations followed for some years to come.
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Furthermore, it had been alarmed at local initiatives taken in the immediate aftermath of the June war.
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Impressions formed by investigators at the scene of a crime and in its immediate aftermath can not be repeated later.
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Beyond 1945 and its immediate aftermath was the outline of a future permeated with hope.
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In the immediate aftermath of annexation or conquest Euric's rule was far from pleasant.
■ VERB
deal
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Instead he asked parliament for a temporary grant of special powers to deal with the aftermath of the insurrection.
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The story deals with the aftermath of warfare, particularly the devastation wreaked by land mines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But were they talking about the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars?
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In the aftermath she nestled in his arms, forgetful of the time.
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The aftermath of a fire is always sad.
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The family was ripped apart by the murder and its aftermath .
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The phenomenon was highlighted in the aftermath of an earthquake in 1992, the worst to hit the city in decades.
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They know how helpful tears are to defuse tension and how constructive their aftermath can be.
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They rode back to Queenstown in a silence made steamy by the aftermath of heavy rains.