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repercussion

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Worse, these women are often deterred from reporting such abuses, due to personal threats, fears of professional repercussions, and the likelihood that those who could help them seek recourse will not believe them.

From Fortune

Disney probably understands the consequences of failing to think about the repercussions of efforts to build its audience in China better than anyone.

From Quartz

In San Diego, tourism-related businesses are taking a tremendous hit, and it is likely there will be ongoing repercussions long after restrictions are lifted.

The Madden-Julian Oscillation is a pattern of storms that usually forms several times a year in tropical latitudes and can have weather repercussions around the globe.

The fact that a “no match” from a human investigator can overturn a wrong machine identification should be reassuring, but that came too late to save Williams from false arrest and its repercussions.

The proposed law would allow men to abuse their wives, children, and sisters without threat of judicial repercussion.

But we can't live in a world where citizens are allowed to do what he's done without repercussion.

Anything done to the Double acts by repercussion upon the physical body.

They're the most curious scars in the world, these scars transferred by repercussion from an injured Double.

When the air around was no longer shaken by constant repercussion, Bobby fell asleep.

This is a specimen of the "repercussion" stories, in which the wound inflicted on the wer-animal appears in the human form.

We feel the repercussion of his anguish when death was imminent for alleged participation in a nihilistic conspiracy.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to repercussion, such as: backlash, chain reaction, effect, fallout, impact, and influence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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