adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In "The Young Slave" the jealous stepmother turns the main character into a slave, hence the story's title.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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High interest rates lead to the following problems: They may discourage investment plans and hence long-term growth.
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In his benevolent aspect he is the source of rain and hence petitioned to alleviate drought, and also to prevent meningitis.
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Let us, in our imagination, look back from five years hence .
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Many left no records, hence the difficulty of assessing the importance of charity locally or nationally.
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Naturally that had merely increased Blythe's curiosity, for the public, hence journalists, loved skeletons in cupboards.
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These are protein molecules, which owe their specificity to their amino acid sequence, and hence ultimately to the genes.
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Where rainfall is adequate soil is frequently bad: hence the rain-soaked, acid fields in parts of Galicia.