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What does after the fact mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word after the fact? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Too late; after something is finished or final.
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As a nation, we take losses very hard and spend the days after the fact nominating scapegoats and lamenting mistakes.
It's a classic example of why a catastrophic warmist can never be wrong, they just move the goal posts after the fact.
Even a year after the fact, and with the benefit of the best of Western scientific advice, it was still a scene of chaos.
Thus, the abolition of tax shelter deductibility was made retroactive, imposing huge penalties after the fact.
I am worried though that his rebuttal after the fact contains some massaging, for fear of the ensuing explosion.
He conceded that the publication of secret information could be punished after the fact.

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