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Recent Examples of blowback
In the blowback, soccer’s global governing body announced a small allotment of $60 tickets for each of the tournament’s 104 matches.
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Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 June 2026
Seven years later, after a brief COVID blowback, the pair opened their own storefront in Historic Filipinotown.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
After a tidal wave of blowback that culminated in a lawsuit, a nonprofit health system has reversed course in its plan to replace its Oregon emergency physicians with a national chain.
—Tara Bannow, STAT, 6 May 2026
Fortune Tech layoffs have topped 90,000 this year, but companies like Microsoft are using voluntary buyouts to cut costs with less disruption and reputational blowback.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
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Jesse Kirsch, NBC news, 4 June 2026
Seven years later, after a brief COVID blowback, the pair opened their own storefront in Historic Filipinotown.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
After a tidal wave of blowback that culminated in a lawsuit, a nonprofit health system has reversed course in its plan to replace its Oregon emergency physicians with a national chain.
—Tara Bannow, STAT, 6 May 2026
Fortune Tech layoffs have topped 90,000 this year, but companies like Microsoft are using voluntary buyouts to cut costs with less disruption and reputational blowback.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowback
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If the conflict and its economic fallout persist, that financing capacity could be scaled up to $80 billion–$100 billion over 15 months.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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The 1974 tournament in West Germany was tarred by the geopolitical fallout of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Although peak performance continues to improve, the models also churn out copious amounts of garbage as a by-product, requiring heroic interventions to sift sense from slop.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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The by-product of his leadership will emerge if Sigur comfortably and confidently changes a game for Canada in the World Cup.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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The goal of all this havoc is not to destroy democracy, according to Vergara—though that might be a welcome side effect, to some—but to torpedo the rule of law and thereby protect illicit financial gains.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
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Deliciousness is a common side effect.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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An offshoot of the popular podcast that actor-comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang have hosted since 2016, the award show aims to celebrate the year’s biggest pop culture moments and plays like a fever dream more dazzling and deliciously random than a late-night scroll session on TikTok.—
Senior Television,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The streamer also has coming up Extraction, a TV series offshoot from the original movie franchise.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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“Blowback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowback. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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