as in to result
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to have a particular result
—used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something —+ to
It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis.
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Recent Examples of redound
This has both saved lives and redounded enormously to our benefit economically, culturally, and socially.
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Fear and instability redound to the benefit of authoritarians, so violence done in the name of left-wing causes serves right-wing ends.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
And then too there is the less tangible, more lyrical side of space travel that may redound in NASA’s favor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2025
That means China’s investments in clean energy redound to the rest of the world.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Fear and instability redound to the benefit of authoritarians, so violence done in the name of left-wing causes serves right-wing ends.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
And then too there is the less tangible, more lyrical side of space travel that may redound in NASA’s favor.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2025
That means China’s investments in clean energy redound to the rest of the world.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redound
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Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Our formula factors accuracy, passing yardage, touchdown/interception ratio and team result.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Redound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redound. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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