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as in resultant
coming as a result his high-fat diet and the consequential weight gain

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Recent Examples on the Web Any significant shift could be consequential in a razor-thin election. L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024 The demographics In 2020, the nearly 30 counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area constituted about 60 percent of Georgia's vote, making any shifts in that part of the state especially consequential. Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2024 Perhaps that’s because the concept itself is so malleable, so personal, so able to expand and contract and nimbly fill the contours of any idea: Success can be as small as making a perfect omelet or as large and consequential as curing a disease. Josh Condon, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2024 In other words, Billy is a powerful and consequential Marvel character who also happens to be unmistakably gay. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for consequential 

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“Consequential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consequential. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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