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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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as in derivation
something that naturally develops or is developed from something else
an industry that is an outgrowth of the technology first developed for the U.S. space program
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Recent Examples of outgrowth
Instead, winning is the outgrowth and the evidence of hard work, high character, and a pure heart.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Coppola’s film is disorienting and disturbing, using Vietnam to capture the insanity of all war and drawing on Conrad to suggest that war might just be an outgrowth of an awfulness at the core of humanity itself.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Next there was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an outgrowth of the 2008 financial collapse and a long standing target of the financial services industry.
—Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
That acrimony accelerated the outgrowth of hard-right media organizations that pitch themselves as alternatives to Fox, from Newsmax and One America News Network to Right Side Broadcasting Network and Real America’s Voice.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Coppola’s film is disorienting and disturbing, using Vietnam to capture the insanity of all war and drawing on Conrad to suggest that war might just be an outgrowth of an awfulness at the core of humanity itself.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Next there was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an outgrowth of the 2008 financial collapse and a long standing target of the financial services industry.
—Claudia Weicker, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025
That acrimony accelerated the outgrowth of hard-right media organizations that pitch themselves as alternatives to Fox, from Newsmax and One America News Network to Right Side Broadcasting Network and Real America’s Voice.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outgrowth
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One tip came in anonymously with surveillance footage that showed a similar man cutting a limb from a tree at the corner of North Figueroa Street and West Avenue 26 in broad daylight.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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Is Delia permanently out on a narrative limb, with no further questions?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
9 May 2025
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Polis also highlighted a unique concern: the CAIA deviates from traditional discrimination frameworks by prohibiting all discriminatory outcomes from AI systems, regardless of intent.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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And while ear piercing is generally safe, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) lists several adverse outcomes to improper piercing and piercing care, such as infection at the piercing site, bloodstream infections, allergic reactions, cuts and tears, and keloid formation.—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
9 May 2025
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The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic theory from the microscopic one; and then stitch them together in a single derivation of the macroscopic laws all the way from the microscopic ones.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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The chances are that language switching isn’t necessarily active for the chain-of-thought derivations.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The terminal rate is the point at which interest rates do not act as headwinds for economic growth, and are consistent with allowing the central bank to achieve its inflation target.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
16 May 2025
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The Fed, which cuts rates to boost a flagging economy and raises them to fight inflation, could await more clarity as tariffs both drive up inflation and weaken growth – an unusual tandem.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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The result of those horrendous 1992 seasons placed the Patriots and Seahawks atop the 1993 NFL Draft.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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His release is the result of secret talks between the U.S. and Hamas.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
12 May 2025
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Mazda was considering an SUV derivative of the 6e for North America — rumored to be called the Mazda CX-6e — but the current stiff tariffs don’t bode well for vehicles built outside the US.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Still, positioning in the derivatives market shows skepticism this rally will last, Silverman said.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
6 May 2025
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The goal of the purchase was to allow Billy Reid to reenter the custom business, a commercially successful offshoot of its core that was shuttered during the pandemic.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
9 May 2025
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In the end, the network went with four new drama series for next season, the aforementioned Sheriff Country and new offshoots from Blue Bloods in Boston Blue starring Donnie Wahlberg; from FBI in CIA starring Tom Ellis; and from Yellowstone in Y: Marshals, starring Luke Grimes.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 May 2025
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Show how data from customers/employees contributes to product innovations; present plans for sharing resultant value. 2.—
James Felton Keith,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Finally, the resultant structure was coated in potassium hydroxide, which washes away less stable structures and leaves behind thousands of microscopic pores.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Outgrowth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgrowth. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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