knock-on

Example Sentences

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Canavan said failure to adequately handle the problem of homelessness will have knock-on impacts for health and social care.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Rowlinson said restoring woodland could improve soil health, reduce flooding and limit pollution entering waterways, with potential knock-on effects for marine ecosystems.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Pausing the federal energy tax could have negative knock-on effects.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The often-combative hearing also discussed the international economic ramifications of the war such as the rise in global oil prices, and its knock-on impacts for the price of other goods.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

In these last two chapters we have been looking at the ways in which intellectual change has knock-on consequences.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton