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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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as in derivation
something that naturally develops or is developed from something else
an industry that is an outgrowth of the technology first developed for the U.S. space program
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Recent Examples of outgrowth
The 50 State Initiative is an outgrowth of our Local Reporting Network, which began in 2018 and has generated about 100 projects to date.
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Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
The firm is an outgrowth of the three co-founders' research at MIT and Marvin’s son, the firm’s CTO Henry Minsky (sadly, Marvin passed away in 2016).
—Dean Debiase, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
The anti-Assad group leading the assault, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is an outgrowth of Al Qaeda, and is believed by the U.S. to still have significant ties.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
The conflict began in 2011 as an outgrowth of the regional Arab Spring movement, with protests against the Assad regime that quickly mutated into an insurgency after the regime’s brutal crackdown.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 5 Dec. 2024
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Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
The firm is an outgrowth of the three co-founders' research at MIT and Marvin’s son, the firm’s CTO Henry Minsky (sadly, Marvin passed away in 2016).
—Dean Debiase, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
The anti-Assad group leading the assault, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is an outgrowth of Al Qaeda, and is believed by the U.S. to still have significant ties.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
The conflict began in 2011 as an outgrowth of the regional Arab Spring movement, with protests against the Assad regime that quickly mutated into an insurgency after the regime’s brutal crackdown.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outgrowth
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His attempt to strangle Oswald leads a large prop door hanging above the stage to fall and crush Edward’s limbs, which are henceforth contained in thick casts.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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Scale invariance occurs in trees because trunks, limbs and twigs all branch in similar ways and for similar reasons.—
Mitchell Newberry,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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Trump and Musk capitalized on the agency’s missteps, particularly an out-of-control budget increasingly untethered from foreign policy outcomes.—
Sean P. Brooks,
Orlando Sentinel,
14 Feb. 2025
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Deaths and births disproportionately occurred in the South, which has already tended to have worse infant and maternal health outcomes than the rest of the country.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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The chances are that language switching isn’t necessarily active for the chain-of-thought derivations.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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But just keep in mind that is the derivation of the three-point shot.—
Ryan Canfield,
Fox News,
30 Oct. 2024
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Serbia’s authoritarian leader should be riding high, lifted by economic growth that is four times the European average, falling unemployment and steadily rising wages.—
Andrew Higgins,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Water sparingly until the plant begins active growth, then resume regular watering and start fertilizing.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Power rankings: How do all 32 teams stand following the result of Super Bowl 59?—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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These results were consistent in participants drinking caffeinated and noncaffeinated coffee.7 Factors That Influence Caffeine's Role in Inflammation While caffeine alone can either increase or decrease inflammation, other factors can influence its role in inflammation.—
Ashley Wong,
Health,
17 Feb. 2025
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Chemically, it is classified as a phenothiazine derivative.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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John Marshall, head of derivatives research at Goldman Sachs, noted that S & P 500 options imply a 0.6% shift in either direction for the index.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2025
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The prevailing theory is that the powers that be want to position the offshoot under the umbrella of parent company Paramount Global.—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
14 Feb. 2025
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The character’s not as devilish on this funky offshoot, but the concept still lands.—
Stephen Kearse,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Finally, the resultant structure was coated in potassium hydroxide, which washes away less stable structures and leaves behind thousands of microscopic pores.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2024
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Designers had initially hoped to tunnel beneath the rail line, but UP refused permission, the resultant bridge adding well over $15 million to the project cost, according to Ellerman.—
Mark Lamster,
Dallas News,
29 June 2023
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“Outgrowth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgrowth. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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