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Recent Examples of side effect
Some people experience no side effects, while others may experience side effects for a few months until their body adjusts to the IUD.
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Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2024
Even better, the pill was well tolerated with only mild side effects, and patients continuing treatment were seeing further weight loss.
—Jesse Pound,samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
The next steps for the company include demonstrating that the drug could be easily manufactured in large quantities — not just small samples for the lab — and human trials to study potential negative side effects.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Plus, the small patch enables targeted treatment on a small area of the skin, and that could reduce the chance of potential side effects.
—New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2024
Even better, the pill was well tolerated with only mild side effects, and patients continuing treatment were seeing further weight loss.
—Jesse Pound,samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
The next steps for the company include demonstrating that the drug could be easily manufactured in large quantities — not just small samples for the lab — and human trials to study potential negative side effects.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Plus, the small patch enables targeted treatment on a small area of the skin, and that could reduce the chance of potential side effects.
—New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for side effect
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The Implications For Boeing And The U.S. Aerospace Industry For Boeing and the larger American aerospace sector, the emergence of COMAC has major ramifications.Jim Osman, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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The recurring dispute over how well exit polling captures Latino voters — the groups and pollsters have raised it in previous elections — has ramifications for nonprofit groups that have focused on improving Latino voter turnout.Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The violence of tourism—subtle and not so subtle—is the aftereffect of colonialism in an economy developed still to be extractive and to persist in forcing the local people into new forms of servitude.Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024
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The state is still grappling with the storm’s aftereffects and searching for missing people, but the Facebook post vastly overstates the loss of life, according to North Carolina officials.Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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They are not deterred by the complexities and challenges of personal injury cases.Chris Gallagher, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Though some of this complexity is implemented deliberately to execute organizational strategy, the reality is that much of it operates outside traditional visibility tools.Rajat Bhargava, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Sure, by the end of the episode, the convolutions have begun to accumulate, but that just goes with the territory.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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The resulting structure, unlike a smooth seawall, is replete with nooks, crannies, and convolutions.Saqib Rahim, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024
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The complications come as Meta’s rivals Google, Amazon and Microsoft have all struck deals to acquire nuclear power plants to continue building power-hungry AI models.Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the wake of the ruling, numerous reports have emerged of women dying or nearly dying from miscarriages or complications in dangerous pregnancies, as doctors were unable to intervene due to these bans.Lizzie Hyman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Side effect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20effect. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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