After all
After all adverb - In spite of expectations.
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Even if and after all are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Even if" instead the phrase "After all" as an adverb or a conjunction.
Even if
After all and even if are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "After all" instead the phrase "Even if" as an adverb or a conjunction.
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- However, it's acknowledged that she'd still have behaved somewhat similarly even if she didn't desperately need the money — she IS a rogue, after all.
Source: Miser Advisor - However, one could say, that even if he lives, he is still left alone, trapped among homicidal splicers, so he might get his deserved comeuppance after all.
Source: Karma Houdini / Video Games - After all, even if the corrupt executive is motivated purely by greed, you would think he wouldn't Kick the Dog unless it was profitable.
Source: Honest Corporate Executive
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Even if and After all. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/after_all/even_if
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