as in result
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
one expected outcome of hard work is greater success
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Recent Examples of outcome
Marketing professor Karen Anne Wallach of the University of Alabama in Huntsville has studied how the use of exclusive language in marketing campaigns influences business outcomes.
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Chloe Veltman, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
This patchwork of outcomes is a serious problem for a national organization like the NCAA, which seeks to apply and enforce rules uniformly across member schools and conferences.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2026
In a press conference following the outcome of the FOMC meeting, Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated the uncertainty the war creates for the outlook.
—Reuters
wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
And in a related study also published in Nature on Wednesday, Aerts and his colleagues found that, among cancer patients receiving immunotherapy, those who had a healthier thymus tended to have better treatment outcomes.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
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Chloe Veltman, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
This patchwork of outcomes is a serious problem for a national organization like the NCAA, which seeks to apply and enforce rules uniformly across member schools and conferences.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2026
In a press conference following the outcome of the FOMC meeting, Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated the uncertainty the war creates for the outlook.
—Reuters
wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
And in a related study also published in Nature on Wednesday, Aerts and his colleagues found that, among cancer patients receiving immunotherapy, those who had a healthier thymus tended to have better treatment outcomes.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcome
Noun
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One of the hosts yelled repeatedly about the results, complained about just about everything and dropped a lot of F-bombs.—
Jacobina Martin,
Washington Post,
16 Mar. 2026
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The brothers faced a few unsuccessful trials before achieving the final result.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Hynes said the sudden increase to Kaegi’s home assessment was out of line with the neighborhood and the resultant break was unfair, an example of the volatility of Kaegi’s assessments.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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On Tuesday, Johansson’s resumption of his posting as a winger on the Wild’s second line meant the resultant shuffling gave Nico Sturm the night off.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The horse is very confused by your utter lack of consideration as to the consequences.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Jones was stuck on his left hip, a consequence of his gamble to lunge for a steal on the pass to Gilgeous-Alexander.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This achievement can only be the product of an obsessive, near-philosophical approach to the sandwich as a composition, to the gestalt of the bite.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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The company develops and makes products for civilian and military use, such as drone technologies used by Ukraine's armed forces in the fight against the Russian invasion.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Outcome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcome. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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