BLOWBACKS Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

blowbacks

noun

plural of blowback

as in side effects

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Noun

Coir, a fibrous material made from by-products of coconut husks; it is often used as a substitute for peat.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
New in-line measurement technologies enable tracking of substrates, by-products and metabolites continuously, inside the reactor, without pulling samples.

— Hamid Noori, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

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The open threat to kill the president was widely criticized, but Bakhshi is not known to have faced any legal repercussions.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Most of all, the repercussions are felt by students, who receive a very clear message about which stories their community considers dirty or deviant.

— Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026

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But, of course, the ultimate sell, the one that would carry such businesses and their offshoots through feast and especially famine, was the optimism of opportunity itself, a shot at the good life in crazy times, for sellers and customers both.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Both vehicles are offshoots from the nation’s Long March 10, a gargantuan rocket that is being developed to send Chinese astronauts to the moon.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

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That durability is especially striking given the carnage elsewhere in late night, especially among shows that were, literally or in spirit, spin-offs from The Daily Show.

— Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
Before the spin-offs, Honeywell employed 97,000 people and 1,150 were based in Charlotte.

— Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026

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