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AND SO
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
Example:
and so home and to bed
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Context examples:
Her brother was burrowing for frozen pay-streaks in that far country, and so she constituted herself an authority on the subject.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
That is, physical activity was linked to physiological markers related to inflammation, angiogenesis, metabolic regulation, and so on.
(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)
Those discs can be incredibly vast, and so could the planetary system that grows out of them.
(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Then Maud pressed and held the fingers about the pencil with her own hand and the hand wrote, in large letters, and so slowly that the minutes ticked off to each letter:
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice — is the strongest material in the world and so thin that it is flexible, the researchers said.
(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)
The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes—cosmic bodies formed by the collapse of massive stars and so dense even light can't escape.
(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Maybe they share pathways and elements of a common — and so far, not completely understood — bioelectrical code.
(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They theorized that, during cold spells, people are more likely to seek shelter and so could more easily escape the cold’s effects.
(Extreme temperatures could increase preterm birth risk, NIH)
And so was recorded the second epitaph in two days.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
