postaccident

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ accident

Adjective[edit]

postaccident (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after an accident
    • 1993 November 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unbelievable”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      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.
    • 1999 April 9, Jocelyn Kaiser, “The Exxon Valdez's Scientific Gold Rush”, in Science[2], volume 284, number 5412, →DOI, pages 247–249:
      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."