: the final result : outcome
The upshot of all those texts is that we'll see him on Saturday.
Examples of upshot in a Sentence
the upshot of the court's ruling is that a number of communities will now have to change their gun laws
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One upshot of the menu’s byzantine sprawl is that every visit offers something new to discover.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Rob says there has since been an interesting upshot to all the grief and stress with parenting a child with an incurable brain disease: a newfound faith in humanity.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
An upshot of this is other teams at such levels of the game adopting a similar approach by bringing big names on board, such as Birmingham and NFL great Tom Brady, with a documentary about the West Midlands club set to air soon on Amazon Prime.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Audi The practical upshot of SDVs, unlike older cars with their single-function black boxes, is that everything on an SDV should be updatable.
—ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Rob says there has since been an interesting upshot to all the grief and stress with parenting a child with an incurable brain disease: a newfound faith in humanity.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
An upshot of this is other teams at such levels of the game adopting a similar approach by bringing big names on board, such as Birmingham and NFL great Tom Brady, with a documentary about the West Midlands club set to air soon on Amazon Prime.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Audi The practical upshot of SDVs, unlike older cars with their single-function black boxes, is that everything on an SDV should be updatable.
—ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
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“Upshot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upshot. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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