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blowback

noun

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as in fallout

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Recent Examples of blowback The Carlson-Vance partnership has generated more conservative blowback over the past few years as Carlson has progressed from skepticism of Israel into anti-Semitism, which Carlson denies. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026 There was so much preservationist blowback that most of the survivors were soon designated, inside and out, by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026 In 2019, Jay-Z faced blowback for the NFL deal, as many viewed it as his turning his back on Kaepernick, who remained unemployed by the league. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026 However, there could be some blowback in that a number of Republicans voting on Tuesday may resent Healey’s interference in the GOP primary and vote for Minogue because of it. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blowback
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  1. fallout
  2. by-product
  3. side effect
  4. offshoot
Noun
  • Yet nearly three years after Ventura first filed her lawsuit against Combs, there has been no further fallout, no reinvigorated movement of any kind.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In the show’s second season, Lumon struggles to contain the fallout from these discoveries and fires the head of the severed floor, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), replacing her with her former deputy, Seth Milchick (Tillman).
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of fallout
Noun
  • Millions more have died from the by-products of those conflicts, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project, on top of untold injuries.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And those are applied on a product-by-product basis, usually after people have been injured or killed.
    — Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of by-product
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  • One side effect of this is a new distance from OpenAI, in addition to its existing chilly relationship with Anthropic, and from the growing number of AI employees in Silicon Valley who also support the calls for a slowdown.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • That close connection between computing and memory, which Nvidia and others have only recently shifted toward, had the side effect of making Macs good at AI.
    — Stephen Nellis, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of side effect
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  • In 1952 a difference of opinion over membership on the leadership council in Short Creek led to rival factions, one of which, in 1954, became the offshoot Apostolic United Brethren (AUB), the second largest of the fundamentalist groups.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Vagmaxxing seems the logical offshoot of a trend that prizes unreasonable, unrealistic body modification to the point of impossible AI perfection and transhumanism—scary enough!
    — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of offshoot

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