result
Frequently Asked Questions
- The result was clearly an upset—the favorites lost to a weaker and less experienced team.
- Using cold butter yields better results when making pastry.
- The scandal has resulted in the resignation of three top officials.
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This result highlights one of the most surprising features of Landau-Zener-Majorana transitions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
U.S. officials have acknowledged they do not expect the meeting to result in a breakthrough on arms control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
In discussing his unsteady debate performance, Biden writes that it came after extensive travel and that he felt “awful—so bad I was tested for Covid. The result came back negative.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The service has come under renewed pressure in recent months as a result of the early release scheme, the union said, which the government introduced as prisons were dangerously close to capacity.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“The ocean has flooded into lowland areas, creating new islands and waterways. As a result, the ocean currents are always changing, which makes them hard to predict.”
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
The results challenge the belief that physical activity necessarily makes injured knees worse.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
General election 2026 live results: Follow live results as Angelenos and Californians vote for Los Angeles mayor, state governor and other state, county and city races.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
The electoral commission issued a new calendar on social media Saturday, with a new election date of February 11 and the results to be announced four days later.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
But breeding results are complex and unpredictable, Bedford said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Hardly a pas de deux, there was a seesaw of results: wins for Bobby...draws...wins for Reshevsky.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
All pregnancies resulted in deliveries between October 1, 2009, and December 31, 2023.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Meta has argued that the greater tolerance of offensive speech has resulted in fewer overall complaints about content takedowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Police later said that the incident had resulted in a "barricade situation" and urged residents to avoid the area, which is about a mile north of the White House.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
The digital healthcare company narrowed its sales outlook after higher costs in the third quarter resulted in an unexpected loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Finally, our trial-and-error method resulted in a combination of ingredients that seemed to have the most flash and smoke to it.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The resulting storm produced the strongest magnetic disturbance ever measured in Earth's ring current, a vast region of electrically charged particles surrounding the planet.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
But it said it had secured extra funding for more surgeries in order to reduce the amount of people on the waiting list, resulting in additional pectus procedures in the last three years.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Portugal saw a 139-percent increase to 313,600 individuals, resulting from approvals of a backlog of pending residency permits.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Yet there’s also a bigger event, resulting in a $500 payment applied to the deductible.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
There had been earlier attempts to build communities whose goal was to advance knowledge: sixteenth-century doctors, for example, had formed networks and had published the resulting correspondence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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