BYPRODUCTS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

by-products

noun

variants or byproducts

plural of by-product

as in derivatives

something that naturally develops or is developed from something else hydrogen is one by-product of that chemical reaction

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Recent Examples of by-products 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 Israel claimed responsibility for the strikes on the South Pars petrochemical complex in Asaluyeh, a key site for Iran's energy sector, both for production of petroleum by-products and for joint work with Qatar on the world's largest natural gas field. —

Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026 These included an ice-cream parlor, souvenir shops, and homes repurposed into Airbnbs—all by-products of a growing tourism industry on Fogo. —

Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026 Not all the tendencies that make chatbots dangerous are glitches; some are by-products of how the systems are built. —

Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Due to the underwater belt’s sheer size, the monumental construction revealed a community dependent on whaling, as by-products became commodities to be exchanged and traded between these local groups. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026 Penny and Ghazarian hired their own industrial hygienist, who concluded the property needed to be decontaminated of heavy metals and other combustion by-products. —

Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026 These pests then generate by-products that can trigger allergies. —

Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026

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Leveraged ETFs use derivatives to provide daily returns double and even triple the return of certain indexes and stocks.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 3 June 2026
Studies, including his, suggest that the chemical reactions that break down and construct glucose derivatives, which are normally associated with life, might have existed before the enzymes and genes that enable them in living cells.

— Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026