How to Use downside in a Sentence
downside
noun- He could find no downside to the car.
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So there are a lot of downsides.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
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That would be the downside of it.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Feb. 2026
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The largest downside as of now?
—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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That’s one of the downsides of it.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
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What are the downsides of a trust?
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
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But all of these gains come with a downside.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
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The low cost has its downsides, of course.
—New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
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And yet, these perks come with downsides.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
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Are there any downsides of cap on card rates?
—Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026
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What are the downsides of cash-back cards?
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
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But the short-term could well have had a downside.
—Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
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Now, there’s a downside to that, right?
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
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That said, there are downsides.
—Julia Sullivan, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
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There are still downsides, though.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
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There are downsides, of course.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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Biomass, too, has its downsides.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 30 Jan. 2026
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The downside is the price, but this deal helps out with that.
—Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 25 June 2025
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Lemon also spoke to the downsides of such a move.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
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Bug bites are one of the downsides of summer.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
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Yes, there is often a downside even to the good news.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
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But for some, the data comes with a downside.
—Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2026
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The downside is a tight back seat with just enough space to cram in two tall adults.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Nov. 2023
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Snider has been open about the brutal downsides of fame.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 4 Mar. 2026
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There are downsides to doing this good work.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
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The downside is that the limits aren’t hard to get around.
—ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
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There are some downsides to being a bank.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
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For young people, that can come with big downsides.
—Kaitlyn Huamani, Fortune, 28 May 2026
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The boards that get this right will do more than manage downside.
—Samantha Gloede, Fortune, 19 June 2026
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There are other downsides to that though, of course.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026
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