outgrowth
Example Sentences
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“The road being built in this corrupt, cruel way was a natural outgrowth of everything set up in the first movie. We’re telling the audience right away, ‘We explore heavy themes in our story.’”
From Los Angeles Times
These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.
Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.
It was an outgrowth of playing golf with some friends who happened to own thoroughbreds.
From Los Angeles Times
But once you realize that the trans panic is an outgrowth of decades of Satanic panic, the role Riley Gaines plays comes into sharper focus.
From Salon
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