blowback

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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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  • By comparison, minor electrode burns are the primary side effect sometimes reported from at-home tDCS devices—not nothing, but less disruptive to daily life than antidepressant medications, for instance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Make sure to ask your doctor what type of chemotherapy you’re being put on and if nail lifting is a possible side effect.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 30 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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