Supervene
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To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur withreference or relation to something else; to happen upon or aftersomething else; to be added; to take place; to happen.Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unlessimpressed by divine power. Bentley.A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.
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to happen in the middle of a situation that already exists, and change that situation:
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Occur later than a specified or implied event or action, typically in such a way as to change the situation.
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