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[Teo]

1. Tess called him a liar and at that he stormed out of the room.

2. "I have to go. I'll call you in New York," and with that she hung up.

Are at that and with that interchangeable?
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[asterix]

They are not quite interchangeable.
At that:
You will notice that he stormed out of the room because Tess called him a liar. In other words as a reaction to something done by someone else, or something else.


In the second example with that: is used when the action is done by the same person.