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side effect

noun

variants also side reaction

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Recent Examples of side effect Wellness was not an end goal but rather a helpful side effect of achieving his other purposes. — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Fortune, 21 June 2026 That challenges our previous assumption that plague spillover was a side effect of people taking up farming and settling in permanent villages and towns, living closer to each other and to an assortment of animals (and their fleas). — ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026 Yet Griffin’s businesses are not doing these things as a public service—that’s a side effect. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Deliciousness is a common side effect. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for side effect

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Noun

The ramifications of this trade will be far-reaching and multi-layered.

— Tony Jones, New York Times, 2 July 2026
Once it was passed in October, cities, homeowners, developers and even politicians scrambled to figure out the ramifications.

— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of ramification

Noun

For years, businesses were tethered to their technology vendors due to fear of business disruption and the complexity of building in-house tools.

— Daniela Sirtori, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Its method is both distinguished and derived from nineteenth-century classics, from which Rohmer distills a modernism of variety, ambiguity, complexity, and fragmentation.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

Definition of complexity

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In their alternating waves of resentment and understanding, anger and sorrow, D’Arcy and Cooke imbue Rhaenyra and Alicent’s dynamic with all the weight of this history and none of its convolutions.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 15 June 2026
Previous studies have shown that hardware tailored for specific mathematical operations, such as Fourier and convolution transforms, can significantly outperform general-purpose processors.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of convolution

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Among the potential complications are severe dehydration, electrolyte imbalance and loss of fluid volume in the body, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
The babies, who were about 17 days old, had no complications other than prematurity, the summary said.

— David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026

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