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Discover LudwigThe phrase "after procuring" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something is done following the act of obtaining or acquiring something.
Example: "After procuring the necessary permits, we were able to begin construction on the new building."
Alternatives: "upon obtaining" or "after acquiring".
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The Sartre-de Beauvoir ménage never lacked for incident: after procuring a female lover, de Beauvoir would sometimes pass her along to Sartre.
Typically, last year, a carpet salesman called Adan Rodríguez was jailed for five years after procuring 112 assault rifles, handguns for two men from the Gulf cartel.
After procuring funds by some less-than-legal means, the money launderer first wires the money through a bank registered someplace like Nauru.
After procuring the often perplexing ingredients (what the hell is amaranth?), the kitchen fills with an army of little spice jars while the sink accumulates a teetering tower of grungy pans.
Jane knows full well that money buys happiness, because Jane's No 1 priority – after procuring roughly 97% of Topshop's inventory, a tiny chihuahua puppy called Princess and an immaculate, new-build house – was sorting her loved ones out.
He promised to return after procuring some food, yet as soon as he left, a German kiteboarder and a Russian woman who wasn't sure what to do about the frog she found in her room sat down.
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Another woman is facing similar charges after she was informed on after allegedly procuring abortion pills for her underage pregnant daughter.
"Every manager is under pressure; that's the nature of the job now," he said and, after only procuring one point from his last six games, he should be able to testify to the difficulties.
Khan is known to many in Pakistan as the father of the Pakistani bomb — a tribute to his ingenuity when, after secretly procuring plans for sophisticated gas centrifuges from Europe in the nineteen-seventies, he had his laboratories producing weapons-grade uranium by the mid-eighties.
Epstein recently got out of jail six months early after receiving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to procuring teenage girls for prostitution.
In March, the drug enforcement agency seized Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental weeks after records procured by a defense attorney for a man on death row showed that the state had purchased it from a London supplier operating out of a driving school.
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