the upshot of the court's ruling is that a number of communities will now have to change their gun laws
Recent Examples on the WebLike them or not, the outdoor dining sheds that have been an upshot of the pandemic are more or less here to stay.—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 One upshot: concerns that jobs done remotely in Australia are at risk of being sent to India.—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023 Among onetime admirers, the most generous interpretation for Brand’s political transformation is bleak but straightforward: Today’s version of him is the logical upshot of social media incentives, boundless ego and a bespoke personal radicalism that was always a little ominously amorphous.—Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 Another upshot of the ruling could be new business models finally breaking through.—Bysteve Mollman, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023 An upshot of all of them: Much of what consumers would most want to know is missing.—Robin Fields, ProPublica, 28 June 2023 Their upshot was the recognition in both Moscow and Washington of NATO’s new power, ambit, and purpose.—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023 One upshot, multiple former employees say, was that Amazon could avoid directly employing pilots, the vast majority of whom are unionized.—Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022 The series features violence on the part of a white racist (albeit with a comedic upshot), spurious police raids, large-scale hacking of candidates’ e-mails, and plenty of ribald humor.—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
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