outgrowth

Example Sentences

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The injured tissue produced substantial neurite outgrowth, meaning the long extensions that allow neurons to communicate began growing again.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

It was an outgrowth of playing golf with some friends who happened to own thoroughbreds.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

Equally important, Woods says, the mound city was in large part an outgrowth of the community's previous adoption of maize.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann