by-product
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Through it all, however, West struggled with depression and a sense of self-loathing, and had trouble with intimacy, much of it a by-product of a hardscrabble childhood in West Virginia with a domineering father.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
A natural by-product is when their chosen club is performing well they feel an element of success in their own lives.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
He adds that using this by-product increases the nutritional value of bread while lowering the environmental footprint of sunflower oil production.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026
“Belief in a novel is, for me, a by-product of a certain kind of sentence,” Smith observes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
She and her generation were the first in the history of the world to come of age with the possibility of human extinction as a by-product of human ingenuity.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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