fallout
Example Sentences
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The couple is living in a rental and continuing to deal with the fallout of the fires, still unable to rebuild their house because of the financial costs.
From Los Angeles Times
“Because the risks at that time were felt to be greater than the benefits, the fallout from that was to tell women, just deal with the symptoms — that they will get better with time.”
From MarketWatch
Defence analysts say that a lightning operation to take Greenland could be done relatively easily, but the fallout would be monumental.
From BBC
This was too much for his superiors, who wanted to contain the fallout.
The extreme fallout of the loss introduced the 48-year-old to the brutal nature of football in Glasgow.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.