side effects

variants also side reactions
plural of side effect

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Noun
  • Each of these games should have large ramifications for the College Football Playoff picture.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Substantial raises will go into effect for Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun in 2026-27, potentially having ripple effects on the team’s depth, depending on its willingness to spend and deal with the subsequent tax and the roster-building ramifications.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there.
    Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
  • What To Know According to footage filmed by witness Ryan Garza, several officers can be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling with the aftereffects of the gas on October 4.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her career began helping physicians through the early complexities of digital databases in the absence of information technology departments.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • For travelers, the new Delta flight route represents a more direct bridge to one of the world’s most talked-about destinations of late—both for its cultural renaissance and for its controversies and complexities.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Before the actress, known for her iconic roles in Father of the Bride, Something’s Gotta Give, Annie Hall, and countless other films, succumbed to complications from pneumonia, she was set to drop the second installation of her home collection with the retailer Hudson Grace on November 3.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The perpétuelle montre à tact showcases many of the key refinements and complications that Breguet perfected, including automatic winding, a calendar display, and an ingenious tact mechanism for telling the time silently or in darkness.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Side effects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20effects. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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