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postaccident en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + accident.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Occurring after an accident
    • Arguably, this was part of Weir's directorial style even before it became part of the international mainstream--in his gripping work in The Last Wave (1977), for instance, which is recalled in some of the early hallucinatory moments depicting Max in his postaccident mode. 1993 November 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unbelievable”, in Chicago Reader:
    • The postaccident research, Peterson says, amounted to "a few collections of dead things that washed up on the shore and a few other odd data sets." 1999 April 9, Jocelyn Kaiser, “The Exxon Valdez's Scientific Gold Rush”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI, pages 247–249: