sequel

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se·quel / ˈsēkwəl/ • n. a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one. ∎ something that takes place after or as a result of an earlier event: this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later.

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SEQUEL

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SEQUEL A database query language, precursor of SQL.

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Sequel

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Sequel

a train of followers, 1420; a suite, 1572, a logical consequence; descendants.

Examples : sequel of hangers-on, 1552; of descendants 1572; of followers, 1420; of heirs and sequels, 1533; a sequel and route of worldly and gallant servants, 1491; of songs and rhapsodies, 1713.

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