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redounds

verb

present tense third-person singular of redound

as in results

formal 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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But however janky, the system just about works for the ornery menfolk muddling their way through it, with their many beefs mostly resolved with a bottle of lethally alcoholic local tipple chacha, or a punch to the face, or both.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
On Tuesday, the company unveiled AIForce, a live interface that works across the Salesforce ecosystem.

— Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of works

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Reportedly, this system operates through a two-way connection, linking real-time image recognition directly with surgical manipulation.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
SpaceX already operates its Starbase spaceport in rural Texas, as well as launchpads at government spaceports on the coasts of California and Florida.

— Elizabeth Howell, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of operates

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Sandwiched between them, a soft PDMS layer acts as a viscoelastic nano-spring, balancing adhesion forces so the electrodes can move reversibly without permanently sticking.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
And despite this finding, which has coexisted for decades, Congress rarely acts, something usually blamed on lobbying outspending a diffuse majority.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

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