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AFTER ALL
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emphasizes something to be considered
Example:
he is, after all, our president
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Sense 2
Meaning:
In spite of expectations
Example:
it didn't rain after all
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Context examples:
These tiny particles act by forming cloud droplets after all the larger particles in a warm and humid environment have already been used to form droplets.
(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)
A highly invasive form of electroanalgesia mainly used in the management of debilitating chronic pain syndromes after all other less invasive therapeutic modalities (including SCS) have failed.
(Deep Brain Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus)
The treatment plan for a disease or disorder that has been chosen as the best one for a patient after all other choices have been considered.
(Definitive treatment, NCI Dictionary)
Coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining.
(Last, NCI Thesaurus)
He lived with a faithful servant, a countryman of his own, who looked after all his needs.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After all, she’s—Now, the deuce take my clumsy tongue!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It did not seem to him from what he could see of it to be such a very wicked place after all.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After all that work, the fact that the cores show us something so unexpected and important is a great feeling.
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
He added that the team tested other materials such as aluminum foils and Teflon, but after all the tests, they found that silicon was able to produce more charge than the other materials.
(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
