shortly after

idiom

: soon after
Shortly after she hung up, the phone rang again.

Examples of shortly after in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Of course, Ferguson also wasn’t anticipating the frenzied rush of new entrants and new companies into the AI sector as soon as GPT hit the market at the end of 2022—nor the soaring valuations that LLM competitors would notch so shortly after. Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 May 2024 He was arrested again in December on suspicion of rape, and was released shortly after. Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 21 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for shortly after 

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“Shortly after.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shortly%20after. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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