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as in outcomes
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 derivatives
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 Synonyms for outgrowths
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At the other end of the pitch, in the 66th minute, Nashville goalkeeper Joe Willis spread his limbs to deny Luis Suárez from close range.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025 -
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Of course, a reliable method for measuring a team’s performance is to use underlying metrics to understand the team’s process more than its outcomes.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The violations include student-athletes betting on and against their own teams, sharing information with third parties for purposes of sports betting, manipulating scoring or outcomes and/or refusing to participate in the investigation.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Many big shareholders use robo-voting, automatically following proxy advisors' advice without doing their own analysis, said Rose, who once worked as an assistant derivatives trader at Citibank in New York before attending law school.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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Sugar alcohols are derivatives of sugar that have been chemically changed.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
22 Oct. 2025
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Most cancer deaths, for example, are caused by strain from the disease spreading throughout the body, fueled by the few tumor cells able to survive the travel to different body parts and form new growths.—
Perri Thaler,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
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Between 3 percent and 9 percent of people develop voice disorders due to cysts, growths, or cancers that require surgical removal.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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The major environmental law, known as CEQA, requires government agencies to consider the environmental consequences of projects before acting on them.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Take a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
2 Nov. 2025
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Silicon Valley dreamt up poor derivations of past cautionary tales and created a monoculture of exploitative social media feeds and predatory data-hungry apps that birthed Orwell’s surveillance state.—
John Lopez,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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Provides Antioxidants Brussels sprouts contain antioxidants that help protect cells from compounds called free radicals.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
3 Nov. 2025
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Keep the soil surface moist when germinating seeds, but reduce watering after parsley sprouts and grows a few leaves.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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AeroMap has been validated against NASA wind tunnel data, with results showing close agreement between its predictions and experimental measurements, indicating its suitability for sustainable aircraft development, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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On Wednesday, Democrats said the election results were a referendum on Republicans and should drive them to the negotiating table.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Outgrowths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgrowths. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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