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.
Example Sentences
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The council's website adds that a detailed assessment and review was carried out by the Environment Agency in 2008 and "as a result the site is not considered a harm to the local environment."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Before the vaccine era, hundreds of children a year in the U.S. were either killed by measles or suffered swelling of the brain as a result of the disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now, however, U.S. attorneys’ offices are taking a different approach, pursuing prosecutions that could result in prison terms or deportation.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
With extreme weather events becoming increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, the Netherlands will have to rethink a strategy that has until now been "waterproof."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
But when it did, the result was always something he could use in a future game, or the explanation of what he could have done in a lost or drawn game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The election commission started releasing constituency results late Friday, pledging the final outcome would be made public by Monday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The results suggest that the repeated emergence of complex insect societies may depend more on biological traits specific to certain evolutionary groups than on the way chromosomes are inherited.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Similarly, longtime HSI insiders cautioned that using the agency’s databases and tools to search these lists would yield mismatches and wildly inflated results.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The company said monitoring the bat boxes at the site helped confirm the conservation measures were working and could highlight "unexpected and valuable" results, like the Nathusius' pipistrelle.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The results narrowed down, but there were still a couple thousand of them.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
A DHS spokesperson didn’t answer questions about why so few prosecutions have resulted from HSI’s work.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
McInnes is now the man who must deliver for an expectant fanbase - but after a 1-1 draw on the night resulted in a 3-2 aggregate defeat, is he already under pressure?
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Switching from closed, proprietary AI models to open models has already resulted in savings of 80% to 90% for AT&T in certain applications, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Many changes of plants under domestication resulted from such changes in conditions and hence in the favored types of individuals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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More often, the resulting discoveries will sit somewhere in between those two emotional polarities.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Physical injuries can also harm myelin, and in severe cases, the resulting damage can lead to the death of entire neurons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The players were caught, resulting in the coach benching them for an upcoming game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Mexican proposal would mean that lower U.S. tariffs would ultimately be applied to a quarter of a car’s value or less, resulting in a lower final tariff for many vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Astonishingly, it also swept westward across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, resulting in the colonization of the island of Madagascar.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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