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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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Is there any upshot to all this other than platitudes?
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Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2024
One upshot of the current glut of streaming platforms is a flood of programming to fill them: something for every attention span, something to plug every potential gap of viewer inactivity that might render a certain streaming service irrelevant while some other service pulls ahead.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
The biggest upshot, said organizers, was finding new hosts in the Shinnecock Nation – the oldest self-governing Native tribe in New York.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 June 2024
One upshot of that was an increase in the number of complete nest failures in which every single nestling in a nest died.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2024
One upshot of the current glut of streaming platforms is a flood of programming to fill them: something for every attention span, something to plug every potential gap of viewer inactivity that might render a certain streaming service irrelevant while some other service pulls ahead.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
The biggest upshot, said organizers, was finding new hosts in the Shinnecock Nation – the oldest self-governing Native tribe in New York.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 June 2024
One upshot of that was an increase in the number of complete nest failures in which every single nestling in a nest died.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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“Upshot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upshot. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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