consequence

Example Sentences

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“It sounds good, but there could be unintended consequences, especially if you don’t think about what fills the gap,”

From Los Angeles Times

Law enforcement representatives, while not opposed to accountability measures in principle, have raised legitimate concerns about unintended consequences for state and local police officers.

From Los Angeles Times

“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” Dr. Altaf Saadi, a neurologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, told us.

From Salon

That was agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the much more severe consequences of climate change that 2C of warming would bring.

From BBC

The consequences, she says, tend to be cumulative rather than entertaining.

From BBC