blowback

noun

Definition of blowbacknext
as in fallout

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Recent Examples of blowback After a series of online comments about Inaba were met with broad blowback, Chmerkovskiy was benched by the show for Tuesday’s upcoming episode. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2026 Saudi’s Houthi blowback The Houthis’ new tactic serves two purposes. — Laurent Bonnefoy, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026 However, Brinley said any blowback was brief and the controversy reignited interest in the company. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026 Wearing her musical influences on her sleeve also has had its blowback. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 7 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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  • The material also reduced unwanted by-products and maintained stable performance throughout 12-hour trials.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a by-product of burning fossil fuels, has reached record-high levels (428 parts per million), as have other greenhouse gases such as methane (1,940 parts per billion) and nitrous oxide (340 parts per billion).
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of by-product
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  • The side effect of being able to reduce the risk of cancerous skin cells and potentially prevent future skin cancers is a definite bonus as well.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Don’t quietly stop a medication because of a side effect without talking to your clinician first.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of side effect
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  • Puerto Rico’s main musical export of the last three decades has been reggaeton and its various offshoots, resulting in international success.
    — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2026
  • In 1974, the Beetlejuice star, who was born in Toronto, joined Second City Toronto, an offshoot of the original Chicago training center for sketch-comedy artists.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 30 Oct. 2026
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