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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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as in derivation
something that naturally develops or is developed from something else
an industry that is an outgrowth of the technology first developed for the U.S. space program
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Recent Examples of outgrowth
Instead, winning is the outgrowth and the evidence of hard work, high character, and a pure heart.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Coppola’s film is disorienting and disturbing, using Vietnam to capture the insanity of all war and drawing on Conrad to suggest that war might just be an outgrowth of an awfulness at the core of humanity itself.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Next there was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an outgrowth of the 2008 financial collapse and a long standing target of the financial services industry.
—Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
That acrimony accelerated the outgrowth of hard-right media organizations that pitch themselves as alternatives to Fox, from Newsmax and One America News Network to Right Side Broadcasting Network and Real America’s Voice.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Coppola’s film is disorienting and disturbing, using Vietnam to capture the insanity of all war and drawing on Conrad to suggest that war might just be an outgrowth of an awfulness at the core of humanity itself.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Next there was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an outgrowth of the 2008 financial collapse and a long standing target of the financial services industry.
—Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
That acrimony accelerated the outgrowth of hard-right media organizations that pitch themselves as alternatives to Fox, from Newsmax and One America News Network to Right Side Broadcasting Network and Real America’s Voice.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outgrowth
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However, starting in the 1930s, thieves unwilling to move the heavy statues began sawing off the children’s limbs piece by piece.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2025
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Two of his actors are missing limbs and nearly all are flamboyantly tattooed.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The effort to eliminate taxes on tips quickly gained traction during the 2024 campaign, with polling indicating majority support for the proposal across the country, though Americans are mixed on the potential outcomes of the policy.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
21 May 2025
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Ruda response to her question centered around encouraging students to attend school, increasing enrollment and growing programs to better performance outcomes, and Jean took issue with the fact that the superintendent did not speak to any of the concerns raised in the report.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
21 May 2025
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The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic theory from the microscopic one; and then stitch them together in a single derivation of the macroscopic laws all the way from the microscopic ones.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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The chances are that language switching isn’t necessarily active for the chain-of-thought derivations.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The terminal rate is the point at which interest rates do not act as headwinds for economic growth, and are consistent with allowing the central bank to achieve its inflation target.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
16 May 2025
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The Fed, which cuts rates to boost a flagging economy and raises them to fight inflation, could await more clarity as tariffs both drive up inflation and weaken growth – an unusual tandem.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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The unintended result was heightened wildfire risk.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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But the results confirmed our fears: the mass was consistent with lung cancer.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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Mazda was considering an SUV derivative of the 6e for North America — rumored to be called the Mazda CX-6e — but the current stiff tariffs don’t bode well for vehicles built outside the US.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Still, positioning in the derivatives market shows skepticism this rally will last, Silverman said.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
6 May 2025
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Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which recent reports show to be involved in an influence campaign aimed at European Union institutions, with Qatari and Kuwaiti backing.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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The weapons and shield forge a fascinating offshoot from the combat of the first two games.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
21 May 2025
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Show how data from customers/employees contributes to product innovations; present plans for sharing resultant value. 2.—
James Felton Keith,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Finally, the resultant structure was coated in potassium hydroxide, which washes away less stable structures and leaves behind thousands of microscopic pores.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Outgrowth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgrowth. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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