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[after a
while] {informal} or [in a while] {adv. phr.} Later, at some time in the future;
after a time that is not short and not long.
"Dad, will you help me make this
model plane?" "After a while, Jimmy, when I finish reading the newspaper."
The boys gathered some wood, and in a while, a hot fire was burning.
Syn.: BY
AND BY. Contrast: RIGHT AWAY.
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