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Discover LudwigThe phrase "post factum" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used in legal or academic contexts to refer to something that happened or was done after a particular event or fact. Example: The company's decision to change its pricing strategy post factum caused outrage among its customers.
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post factum
adjective
After the fact; occurring after the focus of an activity has already occurred.
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Hebrew Wikipedia designed a strict linguistic guide that promotes a neutral Hebrew register, rejecting both colloquial and high registers, enforced by an algorithm post factum.
This paper presents post factum analyses of the conditions during 3 days of maximum of this increase of space weather activity – 29 31 October 2003.
It is common to think that the freedom of the will is the will's capacity to will alternatives, or considered post factum, to have willed otherwise than it did.
Consequently, it is not easy to evaluate the EITC effects post factum using conventional non-experimental evaluation methods because there is no natural comparison group that receives no tax credit.
This is a classic example of a 'vacillating' contract relationship where it is impossible to calculate all the details of the contract beforehand and the final contract is made post factum, the relations being based on the mutual trust between partners.
In the following formulation, I am loyal to Sraffa, as far as a price system is concerned: I adopt the assumption that wages are paid post factum, namely, at the end of production, and that the rate of profit is equalised by competition (Sraffa [1960]).
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"This Viking stuff is absolute myth, a post-factum way of describing reckless behavior," Gudmundur Hálfdánarson, a professor of history at the University of Iceland, recently said.
In a wide sense, epigraphy concerns itself with the total firsthand transmission of the written remains of ancient civilizations (as opposed to post-factum copying).
Conradi offers a real expansion of our sense of the preëminent English novelist of the second half of the twentieth century; he brings to the table personal and literary intimacy with his subject, and a treasure lode of hitherto unpublished journals that she had kept (with some post-factum excisions) since her college days, plus caches of her letters retained by their recipients.
Nevertheless, I felt it invidious to alter the corpus post-factum and these articles have been retained in the corpus.
A simple post-factum timing adjustment based on these estimates led to considerably improved agreement between streamflow observations and simulations, further illustrating the potential for using the XWT-based approach for timing error estimation.
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