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Recent Examples of side effect
Zombifying otherwise becomes a side effect of a high dosage.
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Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Luckily, a side effect of knuckle cracking is not the bends—or even a case of arthritis.
—Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026
The [rare side effect was] quickly picked up, and the vaccine was off the market within a little over a year.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
One happy side effect of all this?
—Kathleen Baird-Murray, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2026
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Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Luckily, a side effect of knuckle cracking is not the bends—or even a case of arthritis.
—Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026
The [rare side effect was] quickly picked up, and the vaccine was off the market within a little over a year.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
One happy side effect of all this?
—Kathleen Baird-Murray, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for side effect
Recent Examples of Synonyms for side effect
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The ramifications of Andrew’s arrest are still being felt and will likely continue to be felt by the British royal family for a while.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
25 Feb. 2026
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There are ramifications that are not only punitive in nature but also financial.—
Tory Wegerski,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Since then, a number of factors — a switch to other development models in search of more efficiency, COVID, and aftereffects of the 2023 strikes among them — combined to push the number of network pilots down each year to a low of just five in 2024.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Feb. 2026
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Economists warned that the overall economic picture remains muddied, including by statistical quirks and the aftereffects of the government shutdown this past fall, which disrupted the data that feeds into CPI.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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The marks, found on 260 artifacts from Germany, are very different from modern writing systems, but show the same level of complexity and density of information as proto-cuneiform script, which arose in Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq, about 5,300 years ago.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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Savannah State of Mind follows the lives of seven first-year students navigating the joys, challenges and complexities of college life at a historically Black college.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2026
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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
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The twists, worries and delays in her story highlight the convolution of the U.S. immigration system and the challenges anyone who crossed the border without authorization faces in trying to become a legal resident.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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However, adults 65 years and older and children younger than two are at higher risk of developing complications from the flu.—
Koko Nakajima,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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But in late January, a cadre of federal workers yanked placards from the site’s brick walls in response to a March 2025 executive order from the White House that shunned complication.—
Adam Harris,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Side effect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20effect. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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