blowback

noun

Definition of blowbacknext
as in fallout

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Recent Examples of blowback The decision received some blowback, with one conservative Cuban influencer taking to Instagram to slam the business for hosting Jeffries. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 25 Oct. 2026 Trump’s Republican Party is on edge for potentially heavy losses in House and Senate seats its candidates are defending, driven in part by blowback from consumers facing soaring energy prices. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026 But the blowback to an ad in the governor’s race suggests there are limits. — Dan Merica, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 That might help explain, in part, why many Republican officials seem undaunted — even emboldened — by the blowback to this new Ramaswamy ad. — Caitlin Dewey, Vox, 21 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blowback
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  1. fallout
  2. by-product
  3. side effect
  4. offshoot
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  • The progressive senator’s endorsement offered a counterweight to the political fallout from Stevens’s decision, which senior Democrats have characterized as a betrayal of the party.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Democrats, for their part, were spending the last 24 hours before Election Day making their case in areas where Republicans have long dominated, while trying to contain the fallout from a messy intraparty split in Michigan.
    — Michelle L. Price, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of fallout
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  • One can treat it as an indelible feature of human psychology, an unavoidable by-product of our appetite for simplicity and affiliation.
    — Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Evidence remains mixed, and dreams could also be an experiential by-product of useful sleeping-brain activity, rather than an adaptation with its own job description.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of by-product
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  • Compromise of 1970 By the late 1960s, however, the Yemenis decided that the only logical outcome of the conflict was a compromise, which would have as its most important side effect the departure of the various foreign forces.
    — Manfred W. Wenner, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The European Medicines Agency's safety committee concluded that NAION was a very rare side effect of semaglutide that may affect up to 1 in 10,000 people taking it, and recommended updating the drug's product information.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of side effect
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  • Hackett Associates founder Ben Hackett said this year’s months-long peak season was an offshoot of an extended season in 2025, when a series of tariff increases led retailers to bring in merchandise before the tariffs could take effect.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The Shakers are a celibate Christian movement and an offshoot of the Quakers.
    — Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of offshoot

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