upshot

noun

up·shot ˈəp-ˌshät

Synonyms of upshot next

: the final result : outcome

Examples of upshot in a Sentence

the upshot of the court's ruling is that a number of communities will now have to change their gun laws

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Is there any upshot to all this other than platitudes? —

Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2024 One upshot of the current glut of streaming platforms is a flood of programming to fill them: something for every attention span, something to plug every potential gap of viewer inactivity that might render a certain streaming service irrelevant while some other service pulls ahead. —

Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024 The biggest upshot, said organizers, was finding new hosts in the Shinnecock Nation – the oldest self-governing Native tribe in New York. —

Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 June 2024 One upshot of that was an increase in the number of complete nest failures in which every single nestling in a nest died. —

Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for upshot