Examples of resultant in a Sentence
Adjective
She deserves credit for the increase in sales and the resultant increase in profit.
frequent trips to the ice cream parlor and the resultant weight gain were starting to affect my tennis game
Noun
a person's decision to purchase a certain automobile is often the resultant of an array of factors, ranging from the actual performance of the vehicle to the buyer's self-image
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Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The resultant pollution from the Canadian blazes spread across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and even reached as far as Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Mississippi, according to the report.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
On Tuesday, Johansson’s resumption of his posting as a winger on the Wild’s second line meant the resultant shuffling gave Nico Sturm the night off.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
This pace of growth means that every new generation of AI comes with an order-of-magnitude increase in energy, water demand and the resultant CO2 impact.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The resultant pollution from the Canadian blazes spread across Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and even reached as far as Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Mississippi, according to the report.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
Hynes said the sudden increase to Kaegi’s home assessment was out of line with the neighborhood and the resultant break was unfair, an example of the volatility of Kaegi’s assessments.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
On Tuesday, Johansson’s resumption of his posting as a winger on the Wild’s second line meant the resultant shuffling gave Nico Sturm the night off.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Resultant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resultant. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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resultant
1 of 2 adjective
re·sul·tant
ri-ˈzəlt-ᵊnt 
: coming from or resulting from something else
resultantly
adverb
resultant
2 of 2 noun
: something that results : outcome
especially
: the single vector that is the sum of a given set of vectors
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